Active contours with selective local or global segmentation: a new formulation and level set method

K Zhang, L Zhang, H Song, W Zhou - Image and Vision computing, 2010 - Elsevier
A novel region-based active contour model (ACM) is proposed in this paper. It is
implemented with a special processing named Selective Binary and Gaussian Filtering …

Active contours driven by local image fitting energy

K Zhang, H Song, L Zhang - Pattern recognition, 2010 - Elsevier
A new region-based active contour model that embeds the image local information is
proposed in this paper. By introducing the local image fitting (LIF) energy to extract the local …

Active contour model combining region and edge information

Y Tian, F Duan, M Zhou, Z Wu - Machine vision and applications, 2013 - Springer
A novel active contour model is proposed by combining region and edge information. Its
level set formulation consists of the edge-related term, the region-based term and the …

An active contour model based on local fitted images for image segmentation

L Wang, Y Chang, H Wang, Z Wu, J Pu, X Yang - Information sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Active contour models are popular and widely used for a variety of image segmentation
applications with promising accuracy, but they may suffer from limited segmentation …

Active contours driven by local pre-fitting energy for fast image segmentation

K Ding, L Xiao, G Weng - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Local fitting-based active contour models can segment images with intensity inhomogeneity
effectively, but they are time-consuming and often fall into local minima. In this paper, we …

A novel local region-based active contour model for image segmentation using Bayes theorem

Y Li, G Cao, T Wang, Q Cui, B Wang - Information Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Local region-based active contour methods have been widely used to segment images with
intensity inhomogeneity. However, this process can hardly segment images well when …

A novel region-based active contour model via local patch similarity measure for image segmentation

H Yu, F He, Y Pan - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2018 - Springer
It is always difficult to accurately segment images with intensity inhomogeneity because
most of the representative local-based models only take into account rough local information …

Active contours driven by local likelihood image fitting energy for image segmentation

Z Ji, Y Xia, Q Sun, G Cao, Q Chen - Information Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
Accurate image segmentation is an essential step in image analysis and understanding,
where active contour models play an important part. Due to the noise, low contrast and …

A local region-based Chan–Vese model for image segmentation

S Liu, Y Peng - Pattern Recognition, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new region-based active contour model, namely local region-based Chan–
Vese (LRCV) model, is proposed for image segmentation. By considering the image local …

An active contour model driven by adaptive local pre-fitting energy function based on Jeffreys divergence for image segmentation

P Ge, Y Chen, G Wang, G Weng - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
Active contour model (ACM) has been a competitive tool in image segmentation because of
its desired segmentation result and accuracy. Nevertheless, it may become unstable while …