Image Segmentation Using Parametric Contours With Free Endpoints

DOI10.1109/TIP.2016.2529180MaRDI QIDQ4616335zbMATH OpenDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Heike Benninghoff, Harald Garcke

Publication date 4 February 2019

Published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07259

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory (94A08)

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for active contours with free endpoints. A scheme is presented for image segmentation and restoration based on a discrete version of the Mumford-Shah functional where the contours can be both closed and open curves. Additional to a flow of the curves in normal direction, evolution laws for the tangential flow of the endpoints are derived. Using a parametric approach to describe the evolving contours together with an edge-preserving denoising, we obtain a fast method for image segmentation and restoration. The analytical and numerical schemes are presented followed by numerical experiments with artificial test images and with a real medical image.

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