A variational level set model combined with FCMS for image clustering segmentation

DOI10.1155/2014/145780MaRDI QIDQ1717753zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Liming Tang

Publication date 8 February 2019

Published in Mathematical Problems in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/145780

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Image analysis in multivariate analysis (62H35) Multivariate analysis and fuzziness (62H86) Computing methodologies for image processing (68U10) Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory (94A08)

Review text

Summary: The fuzzy C means clustering algorithm with spatial constraint (FCMS) is effective for image segmentation. However, it lacks essential smoothing constraints to the cluster boundaries and enough robustness to the noise. Samson et al. proposed a variational level set model for image clustering segmentation, which can get the smooth cluster boundaries and closed cluster regions due to the use of level set scheme. However it is very sensitive to the noise since it is actually a hard C means clustering model. In this paper, based on Samson's work, we propose a new variational level set model combined with FCMS for image clustering segmentation. Compared with FCMS clustering, the proposed model can get smooth cluster boundaries and closed cluster regions due to the use of level set scheme. In addition, a block-based energy is incorporated into the energy functional, which enables the proposed model to be more robust to the noise than FCMS clustering and Samson's model. Some experiments on the synthetic and real images are performed to assess the performance of the proposed model. Compared with some classical image segmentation models, the proposed model has a better performance for the images contaminated by different noise levels.

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