Segmentation of edge preserving gradient vector flow: an approach toward automatically initializing and splitting of snakes

• Published in: 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) Vol. 1; pp. 162 - 167 vol. 1
• Main Authors: Chunming Li, Jundong Liu, Fox, M.D.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2005
• Subjects: Active contours; Active noise reduction; Active shape model; Computed tomography; Computer science; Image segmentation; Level set; Solid modeling; Spline; Topology

Active contours or snakes have been extensively utilized in handling image segmentation and classification problems. In traditional active contour models, snake initialization is performed manually by users, and topological changes, such as splitting of the snake, can not be automatically handled. I...