An extended level set method for shape and topology optimization
Journal of Computational Physics
Locating object contours in complex background using improved snakes
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
A variational formulation for segmenting desired objects in color images
Image and Vision Computing
Dual evolution of planar parametric spline curves and T-spline level sets
Computer-Aided Design
Level set image segmentation with Bayesian analysis
Neurocomputing
A Geometric Active Contours Model for Multiple Objects Segmentation
ICIC '08 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Intelligent Computing: Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications - with Aspects of Theoretical and Methodological Issues
Brain MR Image Segmentation Using Local and Global Intensity Fitting Active Contours/Surfaces
MICCAI '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - Part I
Shape-topology optimization for Navier-Stokes problem using variational level set method
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
CAD and Graphics: Molecular field feature extraction and analysis with level set method
Computers and Graphics
MICCAI '08 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, Part II
Image Segmentation and Selective Smoothing Based on Variational Framework
Journal of Signal Processing Systems
A semi-automatic method for burn scar delineation using a modified Chan-Vese model
Computers & Geosciences
Automatic joint classification and segmentation of whole cell 3D images
Pattern Recognition
Geometric active contours without re-initialization for image segmentation
Pattern Recognition
A geometric active contour model without re-initialization for color images
Image and Vision Computing
An Edge-Preserving Multilevel Method for Deblurring, Denoising, and Segmentation
SSVM '09 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision
Appearance and Shape Prior Alignments in Level Set Segmentation
IbPRIA '09 Proceedings of the 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
Iris Recognition in Nonideal Situations
ISC '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Security
Active contours driven by local Gaussian distribution fitting energy
Signal Processing
An efficient local Chan-Vese model for image segmentation
Pattern Recognition
Knee MR image segmentation combining contextual constrained neural network and level set evolution
CIBCB'09 Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MICCAI '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention: Part II
Intra-retinal Layer Segmentation in Optical Coherence Tomography Using an Active Contour Approach
MICCAI '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention: Part II
Comparison of Segmentation Algorithms for the Zebrafish Heart in Fluorescent Microscopy Images
ISVC '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing: Part II
Surface Reconstruction of Engine Intake Ports with Mixed Constraints
ICIRA '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications
Active contours driven by local image fitting energy
Pattern Recognition
Active contours with selective local or global segmentation: A new formulation and level set method
Image and Vision Computing
International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science - Applied Image Processing
A fast region-based image segmentation based on least square method
SMC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Towards continuous surveillance of fruit flies using sensor networks and machine vision
WiCOM'09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless communications, networking and mobile computing
Journal of Computational Physics
An implicit active contour model for feature regions and lines
MMM'08 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Advances in multimedia modeling
A level set based segmentation method for images with intensity inhomogeneity
ICIC'09 Proceedings of the Intelligent computing 5th international conference on Emerging intelligent computing technology and applications
ICIC'09 Proceedings of the Intelligent computing 5th international conference on Emerging intelligent computing technology and applications
Comparison of pleomorphic and structural features used for breast cancer malignancy classification
Canadian AI'08 Proceedings of the Canadian Society for computational studies of intelligence, 21st conference on Advances in artificial intelligence
Integrating local distribution information with level set for boundary extraction
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Linked geometric features for modeling the fluid flow in developing embryonic vertebrate hearts
ICIP'09 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Image processing
Graph-based foreground extraction in extended color space
ICIP'09 Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Image processing
A unified tensor level set for image segmentation
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics - Special issue on game theory
Active contouring based on gradient vector interaction and constrained level set diffusion
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Coarse-to-fine boundary location with a SOM-like method
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
Machine Vision and Applications - Integrated Imaging and Vision Techniques for Industrial Inspection
3D level set esophagus segmentation in thoracic CT images using spatial, appearance and shape models
ISBI'10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE international conference on Biomedical imaging: from nano to Macro
PICE: prior information constrained evolution for 3-D and 4-D brain tumor segmentation
ISBI'10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE international conference on Biomedical imaging: from nano to Macro
A variationally based weighted re-initialization method for geometric active contours
ISBI'10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE international conference on Biomedical imaging: from nano to Macro
Toward a method for automatic grading of microscope human embryo images
ISBI'10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE international conference on Biomedical imaging: from nano to Macro
Detecting and extracting the photo composites using planar homography and graph cut
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Decision support in heart failure through processing of electro- and echocardiograms
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Parametric active membrane for segmentation of multiple objects in an image
Pattern Recognition
An Automated Method for Segmentation of Epithelial Cervical Cells in Images of ThinPrep
Journal of Medical Systems
Automatic interesting object extraction from images using complementary saliency maps
Proceedings of the international conference on Multimedia
Patient-specific modeling and analysis of the mitral valve using 3D-TEE
IPCAI'10 Proceedings of the First international conference on Information processing in computer-assisted interventions
Multi-person tracking with sparse detection and continuous segmentation
ECCV'10 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Computer vision: Part I
Converting level set gradients to shape gradients
ECCV'10 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Computer vision: Part V
The segmentation of the body of tongue based on the improved level set in TCM
LSMS/ICSEE'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Life system modeling and simulation and intelligent computing, and 2010 international conference on Intelligent computing for sustainable energy and environment: Part III
MICCAI'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Prostate cancer imaging: computer-aided diagnosis, prognosis, and intervention
A new visualization framework of dental CT images for orthodontics
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry
Distance regularized level set evolution and its application to image segmentation
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Integrating spatial fuzzy clustering with level set methods for automated medical image segmentation
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Geometrically constrained level set tracking for automotive applications
Proceedings of the 32nd DAGM conference on Pattern recognition
A spherical harmonics shape model for level set segmentation
ECCV'10 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on computer vision conference on Computer vision: Part III
A novel variational model for image segmentation
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Split Bregman method for minimization of region-scalable fitting energy for image segmentation
ISVC'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advances in visual computing - Volume Part II
Constructing a computer model of the human eye based on tissue slice images
Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Medical image segmentation based on novel local order energy
ACCV'10 Proceedings of the 10th Asian conference on Computer vision - Volume Part II
Automatic body segmentation with graph cut and self-adaptive initialization level set (SAILS)
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
Performance evaluation on segmentation methods for medical images
ACAI '11 Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computing and Artificial Intelligence
FIMH'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Functional imaging and modeling of the heart
Recovering endocardial walls from 3D TEE
FIMH'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Functional imaging and modeling of the heart
Level set segmentation with shape and appearance models using affine moment descriptors
IbPRIA'11 Proceedings of the 5th Iberian conference on Pattern recognition and image analysis
Ultrasound pancreas segmentation: a new approach towards detection of diabetes mellitus
Proceedings of the 15th WSEAS international conference on Computers
Automatic non invasive kidney volume measurement based on ultrasound image
Proceedings of the 15th WSEAS international conference on Computers
Automatic region of interest detection in natural images
Proceedings of the 15th WSEAS international conference on Computers
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Study of image segmentation for MR diffusion weighed image based on active contour
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Pattern Recognition Letters
Dirichlet Gaussian mixture model: Application to image segmentation
Image and Vision Computing
Cell segmentation using coupled level sets and graph-vertex coloring
MICCAI'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - Volume Part I
Robust tracking of migrating cells using four-color level set segmentation
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An effective segmentation for noise-based image verification using gamma mixture models
ACCV'09 Proceedings of the 9th Asian conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part III
Active contour method combining local fitting energy and global fitting energy dynamically
ICMB'10 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Medical Biometrics
A local region-based Chan-Vese model for image segmentation
Pattern Recognition
Prostate cancer grading: Gland segmentation and structural features
Pattern Recognition Letters
Level set segmentation based on local gaussian distribution fitting
ACCV'09 Proceedings of the 9th Asian conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part I
Surface reconstruction from images using a variational formulation
MMM'10 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Advances in Multimedia Modeling
Morphological gradient applied to new active contour model for color image segmentation
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
3D hand tracking for human computer interaction
Image and Vision Computing
A local modified chan–vese model for segmenting inhomogeneous multiphase images
International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Journal of Biomedical Imaging - Special issue on Advances in Computer-Aided Detection and Diagnosis
Multiview visibility estimation for image-based modeling
Journal of Computer Science and Technology - Special issue on Natural Language Processing
Hybrid machine learning approach for object recognition: fusion of features and decisions
Machine Graphics & Vision International Journal
Multibiometric system using level set method and particle swarm optimization
ICIAR'12 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition - Volume Part II
Segmentation of muscle fibres in fluorescence microscopy images
ICIAR'12 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition - Volume Part II
Variational nonlocal image segmentation using split-Bregman
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service
Using incremental subspace and contour template for object tracking
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
ECCV'12 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part III
Efficient optic cup detection from intra-image learning with retinal structure priors
MICCAI'12 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - Volume Part I
Morphological analysis of the left ventricular endocardial surface and its clinical implications
MICCAI'12 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - Volume Part II
Studies on wheat pests image segmentation based on variational level set
AICI'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence
Facial expression recognition using game theory
ANNPR'12 Proceedings of the 5th INNS IAPR TC 3 GIRPR conference on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition
EuroVis'10 Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics / IEEE - VGTC conference on Visualization
Contrast enhancement in wavelet domain for graph-based segmentation in medical imaging
Proceedings of the Eighth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing
Facial expression recognition using game theory and particle swarm optimization
ICCVG'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Computer Vision and Graphics
Toward designing intelligent PDEs for computer vision: An optimal control approach
Image and Vision Computing
Level set evolution with locally linear classification for image segmentation
Pattern Recognition
Region-based image segmentation with local signed difference energy
Pattern Recognition Letters
Online web-data-driven segmentation of selected moving objects in videos
ACCV'12 Proceedings of the 11th Asian conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part II
Serial slice image segmentation of digital human based on adaptive geometric active contour tracking
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Texture segmentation using vector-valued Chan-Vese model driven by local histogram
Computers and Electrical Engineering
An integrated method for hemorrhage segmentation from brain CT Imaging
Computers and Electrical Engineering
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Extraction of left ventricle borders with local and global priors from echocardiograms
Machine Vision and Applications
Gallbladder shape extraction from ultrasound images using active contour models
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Information Sciences: an International Journal
TouchCut: Fast image and video segmentation using single-touch interaction
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
A Variational Framework for Region-Based Segmentation Incorporating Physical Noise Models
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
Segmentation of Stochastic Images using Level Set Propagation with Uncertain Speed
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
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In this paper, we present a new variational formulation for geometric active contours that forces the level set function to be close to a signed distance function, and therefore completely eliminates the need of the costly re-initialization procedure. Our variational formulation consists of an internal energy term that penalizes the deviation of the level set function from a signed distance function, and an external energy term that drives the motion of the zero level set toward the desired image features, such as object boundaries. The resulting evolution of the level set function is the gradient flow that minimizes the overall energy functional. The proposed variational level set formulation has three main advantages over the traditional level set formulations. First, a significantly larger time step can be used for numerically solving the evolution partial differential equation, and therefore speeds up the curve evolution. Second, the level set function can be initialized with general functions that are more efficient to construct and easier to use in practice than the widely used signed distance function. Third, the level set evolution in our formulation can be easily implemented by simple finite difference scheme and is computationally more efficient. The proposed algorithm has been applied to both simulated and real images with promising results.