Using Dynamic Programming for Solving Variational Problems in Vision
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
On active contour models and balloons
CVGIP: Image Understanding
A fast algorithm for active contours and curvature estimation
CVGIP: Image Understanding
Boundary Finding with Parametrically Deformable Models
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
A Bayesian Approach to Dynamic Contours Through Stochastic Sampling and Simulated Annealing
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Region-based strategies for active contour models
International Journal of Computer Vision
Shape Modeling with Front Propagation: A Level Set Approach
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
A fast level set method for propagating interfaces
Journal of Computational Physics
Object Matching Using Deformable Templates
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Encoding of a priori Information in Active Contour Models
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Region Competition: Unifying Snakes, Region Growing, and Bayes/MDL for Multiband Image Segmentation
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
International Journal of Computer Vision
“Brownian strings”: segmenting images with stochastically deformable contours
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Global Minimum for Active Contour Models: A Minimal Path Approach
International Journal of Computer Vision
Game-Theoretic Integration for Image Segmentation
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Generalized gradient vector flow external forces for active contours
Signal Processing - Special issue on deformable models and techniques for image and signal processing
Deformable template models: a review
Signal Processing - Special issue on deformable models and techniques for image and signal processing
Sectored Snakes: Evaluating Learned-Energy Segmentations
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Shape and topology constraints on parametric active contours
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Geodesic Active Regions and Level Set Methods for Supervised Texture Segmentation
International Journal of Computer Vision
Finite-Element Methods for Active Contour Models and Balloons for 2-D and 3-D Images
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Shape Priors for Level Set Representations
ECCV '02 Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision-Part II
Surface Extraction from Volumetric Images Using Deformable Meshes: A Comparative Study
ECCV '02 Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision-Part III
Phase-Based User-Steered Image Segmentation
MICCAI '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention
On the Incorporation of shape priors into geometric active contours
VLSM '01 Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Variational and Level Set Methods (VLSM'01)
A Real-Time Algorithm for Medical Shape Recovery
ICCV '98 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computer Vision
Deformable Contour Method: A Constrained Optimization Approach
International Journal of Computer Vision
Snakes, shapes, and gradient vector flow
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Area and length minimizing flows for shape segmentation
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
A multidimensional segmentation evaluation for medical image data
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Active contours driven by local Gaussian distribution fitting energy
Signal Processing
A segmentation method for images compressed by fuzzy transforms
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
ISVC '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing: Part I
Integrating local distribution information with level set for boundary extraction
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
Continuous force field analysis for generalized gradient vector flow field
Pattern Recognition
Cytoplasm contour approximation based on color fuzzy sets and color gradient
IPMU'10 Proceedings of the Computational intelligence for knowledge-based systems design, and 13th international conference on Information processing and management of uncertainty
Genetic snake for medical ultrasound image segmentation
ICIAR'11 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Image analysis and recognition - Volume Part II
Pattern Recognition Letters
Proceedings of the 14th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Histology image analysis for carcinoma detection and grading
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
An intelligent tool for anatomical object segmentation using deformable surfaces
SETN'12 Proceedings of the 7th Hellenic conference on Artificial Intelligence: theories and applications
Pattern Recognition Letters
Segmentation of histological images using a metaheuristic-based level set approach
Proceedings of the 15th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation
A novel tool for segmenting 3D medical images based on generalized cylinders and active surfaces
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Edge multi-scale markov random field model based medical image segmentation in wavelet domain
ICIC'13 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Intelligent Computing Theories and Technology
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Extended Topological Active Nets
Image and Vision Computing
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
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A comparative study to review eight different deformable contour methods (DCMs) of snakes and level set methods applied to the medical image segmentation is presented. These DCMs are now applied extensively in industrial and medical image applications. The segmentation task that is required for biomedical applications is usually not simple. Critical issues for any practical application of DCMs include complex procedures, multiple parameter selection, and sensitive initial contour location. Guidance on the usage of these methods will be helpful for users, especially those unfamiliar with DCMs, to select suitable approaches in different conditions. This study is to provide such guidance by addressing the critical considerations on a common image test set. The test set of selected images offers different and typical difficult problems encountered in biomedical image segmentation. The studied DCMs are compared using both qualitative and quantitative measures and the comparative results highlight both the strengths and limitations of these methods. The lessons learned from this medical segmentation comparison can also be translated to other image segmentation domains.