Perceiving Systems
Conference Paper
2011
Level Set Segmentation with Robust Image Gradient Energy and Statistical Shape Prior
Perceiving Systems
We propose a new level set segmentation method with statistical shape prior using a variational approach. The image energy is derived from a robust image gradient feature. This gives the active contour a global representation of the geometric configuration, making it more robust to image noise, weak edges and initial configurations. Statistical shape information is incorporated using nonparametric shape density distribution, which allows the model to handle relatively large shape variations. Comparative examples using both synthetic and real images show the robustness and efficiency of the proposed method.
| Author(s): | Si Yong Yeo and Xianghua Xie and Igor Sazonov and Perumal Nithiarasu |
| Book Title: | IEEE International Conference on Image Processing |
| Pages: | 3397 - 3400 |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Bibtex Type: | Conference Paper (inproceedings) |
| URL: | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6116439&tag=1 |
| Electronic Archiving: | grant_archive |
BibTex
@inproceedings{Yeo:ICIP:2011,
title = {Level Set Segmentation with Robust Image Gradient Energy and Statistical Shape Prior},
booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing},
abstract = {We propose a new level set segmentation method with statistical shape prior using a variational approach. The image energy is derived from a robust image gradient feature. This gives the active contour a global representation of the geometric configuration, making it more robust to image noise, weak edges and initial configurations. Statistical shape information is incorporated using nonparametric shape density distribution, which allows the model to handle relatively large shape variations. Comparative examples using both synthetic and real images show the robustness and efficiency of the proposed method.},
pages = {3397 - 3400},
year = {2011},
slug = {yeo-icip-2011},
author = {Yeo, Si Yong and Xie, Xianghua and Sazonov, Igor and Nithiarasu, Perumal},
url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6116439&tag=1}
}