A Characteristic Function-based Algorithm for Geodesic Active Contours
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DOI10.1137/20M1382817zbMATH Open1524.68423arXiv2007.00525WikidataQ126173518 ScholiaQ126173518MaRDI QIDQ6344209FDOQ6344209
Authors: Jun Ma, Xiao Ping Wang, Xiao-Ping Yang 
Publication date: 1 July 2020
Abstract: Active contour models have been widely used in image segmentation, and the level set method (LSM) is the most popular approach for solving the models, via implicitly representing the contour by a level set function. However, the LSM suffers from high computational burden and numerical instability, requiring additional regularization terms or re-initialization techniques. In this paper, we use characteristic functions to implicitly represent the contours, propose a new representation to the geodesic active contours and derive an efficient algorithm termed as the iterative convolution-thresholding method (ICTM). Compared to the LSM, the ICTM is simpler and much more efficient. In addition, the ICTM enjoys most desired features of the level set-based methods. Extensive experiments, on 2D synthetic, 2D ultrasound, 3D CT, and 3D MR images for nodule, organ and lesion segmentation, demonstrate that the proposed method not only obtains comparable or even better segmentation results (compared to the LSM) but also achieves significant acceleration.
Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55) Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05) Computing methodologies for image processing (68U10)
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