Abstract
A novel hybrid-fitting energy-based active contours model in the level set framework is proposed. The method fuses the local image fitting term and the global image fitting term to drive the contour evolution, and a special extra term that penalizes the deviation of the level set function from a signed distance function is also included in our method, so the complex and costly reinitialization procedure is completely eliminated. Our model can efficiently segment the images with intensity inhomogeneity no matter where the initial curve is located in the image. In its numerical implementation, two efficient numerical schemes are used to ensure the sufficient efficiency of the evolution process, one is the Lattice Boltzmann Model (LBM), which is used for breaking the restrictions on time step, the other is the Sparse Field Method (SFM), which is introduced for fast local computation. Compared with the traditional schemes, these two strategies can further shorten the time consumption of the evolution process, this allows the level set to quickly reach the true target location. The extensive and promising experimental results on numerous synthetic and real images have shown that our method can efficiently improve the image segmentation performance, in terms of accuracy, efficiency, and robustness.
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