Optimization of topological active nets with differential evolution

  • Authors:
  • Jorge Novo;José Santos;Manuel G. Penedo

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, University of A Coruña, Spain;Computer Science Department, University of A Coruña, Spain;Computer Science Department, University of A Coruña, Spain

  • Venue:
  • ICANNGA'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Adaptive and natural computing algorithms - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2011

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The Topological ActiveNetmodel for image segmentation is a deformable model that integrates features of region-based and boundary-based segmentation techniques. The segmentation process turns into a minimization task of the energy functions which control the model deformation. We used Differential Evolution as an alternative evolutionary method that minimizes the decisions of the designer with respect to other evolutionary methods such as genetic algorithms.Moreover, we hybridized Differential Evolution with a greedy search to integrate the advantages of global and local searches at the same time that the segmentation speed is improved.