Robust active contour via additive local and global intensity information based on local entropy

Shuai Yuan; Patrice Monkam; Feng Zhang; Fangjun Luan; Ben Alfred Koomson

doi:10.1117/1.JEI.27.1.013023

19 February 2018 Robust active contour via additive local and global intensity information based on local entropy

Shuai Yuan, Patrice Monkam, Feng Zhang, Fangjun Luan, Ben Alfred Koomson

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 27, Issue 1, 013023 (February 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.27.1.013023

Abstract

Active contour-based image segmentation can be a very challenging task due to many factors such as high intensity inhomogeneity, presence of noise, complex shape, weak boundaries objects, and dependence on the position of the initial contour. We propose a level set-based active contour method to segment complex shape objects from images corrupted by noise and high intensity inhomogeneity. The energy function of the proposed method results from combining the global intensity information and local intensity information with some regularization factors. First, the global intensity term is proposed based on a scheme formulation that considers two intensity values for each region instead of one, which outperforms the well-known Chan–Vese model in delineating the image information. Second, the local intensity term is formulated based on local entropy computed considering the distribution of the image brightness and using the generalized Gaussian distribution as the kernel function. Therefore, it can accurately handle high intensity inhomogeneity and noise. Moreover, our model is not dependent on the position occupied by the initial curve. Finally, extensive experiments using various images have been carried out to illustrate the performance of the proposed method.

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Shuai Yuan, Patrice Monkam, Feng Zhang, Fangjun Luan, and Ben Alfred Koomson "Robust active contour via additive local and global intensity information based on local entropy," Journal of Electronic Imaging 27(1), 013023 (19 February 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.27.1.013023

Received: 21 September 2017; Accepted: 23 January 2018; Published: 19 February 2018

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