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Active contour model driven by Globally Signed Region Pressure Force

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Abdelsamea, Mohammed M. and Tsaftaris, Sotirios A. (2013) Active contour model driven by Globally Signed Region Pressure Force. In: 2013 18th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Fira, Greece, 1-3 July 2013 pp. 1-6. ISBN 9781467358071. ISSN 1546-1874. doi:10.1109/ICDSP.2013.6622691

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDSP.2013.6622691

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Abstract

One of the most popular and widely used global active contour models (ACM) is the region-based ACM, which relies on the assumption of homogeneous intensity in the regions of interest. As a result, most often than not, when images violate this assumption the performance of this method is limited. Thus, handling images that contain foreground objects characterized by multiple intensity classes present a challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel active contour model based on a new Signed Pressure Force (SPF) function which we term Globally Signed Region Pressure Force (GSRPF). It is designed to incorporate, in a global fashion, the skewness of the intensity distribution of the region of interest (ROI). It can accurately modulate the signs of the pressure force inside and outside the contour, it can handle images with multiple intensity classes in the foreground, it is robust to additive noise, and offers high efficiency and rapid convergence. The proposed GSRPF is robust to contour initialization and has the ability to stop the curve evolution close to even ill-defined (weak) edges. Our model provides a parameter-free environment to allow minimum user intervention, and offers both local and global segmentation properties. Experimental results on several synthetic and real images demonstrate the high accuracy of the segmentation results in comparison to other methods adopted from the literature.

Item Type: Conference Item (Paper)
Divisions: Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Biomedical Sciences > Cell & Developmental Biology
Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School
Publisher: IEEE
ISBN: 9781467358071
ISSN: 1546-1874
Book Title: 2013 18th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
Official Date: 2013
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2013Published
Page Range: pp. 1-6
DOI: 10.1109/ICDSP.2013.6622691
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Conference Paper Type: Paper
Title of Event: 2013 18th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
Type of Event: Conference
Location of Event: Fira, Greece
Date(s) of Event: 1-3 July 2013

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