Active Contour-Based Method for Finger-Vein Image Segmentation

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (11) ◽  
pp. 8656-8665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianfeng Zhang ◽  
Zhiying Lu ◽  
Min Li
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Active Contour ◽  
Finger Vein

scholarly journals Active Contour Model with Adaptive weighted function for Robust Image Segmentation under Biased Conditions

2021 ◽  
pp. 114811
Author(s):  
Aditi Joshi ◽  
Mohammed Saquib Khan ◽  
Asim Niaz ◽  
Farhan Akram ◽  
Hyun Chul Song ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Active Contour ◽  
Active Contour Model ◽  
Weighted Function ◽  
Contour Model ◽  
Robust Image

Automatic segmentation of medical images using a novel Harris Hawk optimization method and an active contour model

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Maria Tamoor ◽  
Irfan Younas
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Active Contour ◽  
Medical Image ◽  
Active Contour Model ◽  
Heart Diseases ◽  
Medical Image Segmentation ◽  
Gaussian Kernel ◽  
Initial Contour ◽  
Automated Method ◽  
Contour Model

Medical image segmentation is a key step to assist diagnosis of several diseases, and accuracy of a segmentation method is important for further treatments of different diseases. Different medical imaging modalities have different challenges such as intensity inhomogeneity, noise, low contrast, and ill-defined boundaries, which make automated segmentation a difficult task. To handle these issues, we propose a new fully automated method for medical image segmentation, which utilizes the advantages of thresholding and an active contour model. In this study, a Harris Hawks optimizer is applied to determine the optimal thresholding value, which is used to obtain the initial contour for segmentation. The obtained contour is further refined by using a spatially varying Gaussian kernel in the active contour model. The proposed method is then validated using a standard skin dataset (ISBI 2016), which consists of variable-sized lesions and different challenging artifacts, and a standard cardiac magnetic resonance dataset (ACDC, MICCAI 2017) with a wide spectrum of normal hearts, congenital heart diseases, and cardiac dysfunction. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively segment the region of interest and produce superior segmentation results for skin (overall Dice Score 0.90) and cardiac dataset (overall Dice Score 0.93), as compared to other state-of-the-art algorithms.

An Improved Image Segmentation Active Contour Model

2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 3463-3467
Author(s):  
Li Fen Zhou ◽  
Chang Xu Cai
Keyword(s):  
Differential Equation ◽  
Partial Differential Equation ◽  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Active Contour ◽  
Active Contour Model ◽  
Local Region ◽  
Intensity Inhomogeneity ◽  
Contour Model ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Region Information

The Chan-Vese (C-V) active contour model has low computational complexity, initialization and insensitive to noise advantagesand utilizes global region information of images, so it is difficult to handle images with intensity inhomogeneity. The Local binary fitting (LBF) model based on local region information has its certain advantages in mages segmentation of weak boundary or uneven greay.but , the segmentation results are very sensitive to the initial contours, In order to address this problem, this paper proposes a new active contour model with a partial differential equation, which integrates both global and local region information. Experimental results show that it has a distinctive advantage over C-V model for images with intensity inhomogeneity, and it is more efficient than LBF.

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