Title
A local Gaussian distribution fitting energy-based active contour model for image segmentation.
Abstract
Intensity inhomogeneity and the bias field often occur in real-world images, which cause considerable difficulties in image segmentation. This paper presents a local region-based active contour model for segmentation of images with intensity inhomogeneity and simultaneous estimation of the bias field. In our model, the local image intensities and the bias field are described by the Gaussian distributions with different means and variances. A local Gaussian distribution fitting energy functional is defined on the image region, which combines the level set function and the bias field. Then, gradient flow equations and the bias field are derived for energy minimization. Due to the definition of local image intensities and the bias field, the proposed model is able to deal with intensity inhomogeneity and estimate the bias field. Experimental results on real images demonstrate that the proposed model has advantages over the other classical methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.compeleceng.2016.06.010
Computers & Electrical Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Image segmentation,Level set,Gaussian distribution,Bias field,Intensity inhomogeneity
Computer science,Level set,Distribution fitting,Image segmentation,Real-time computing,Artificial intelligence,Energy functional,Active contour model,Computer vision,Segmentation,Algorithm,Gaussian,Real image
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
70
0045-7906
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haiyong Xu130.71
Gangyi Jiang2865105.98
Mei Yu354286.20
Ting Luo4339.06