NDLI: Global active contour-based image segmentation via probability alignment

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Myronenko, A. Xubo Song
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Sci. & Eng., Oregon Health & Sci. Univ., Beaverton, OR, USA (Myronenko, A.; Xubo Song)
Abstract	Active contours is a popular technique for image segmentation. However, active contour tend to converge to the closest local minimum of its energy function and often requires a close boundary initialization. We introduce a new approach that overcomes the close boundary initialization problem by reformulating the external energy term. We treat the active contour as a mean curve of the probability density function p(x). It moves to minimize the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between p(x) and the probability density function derived from the image. KL divergence forces p(x) to “cover all image areas” and the uncovered areas are heavily penalized, which allows the active contour to go over the edges. Also we use deterministic annealing on the width of p(x) to implement a coarse-to-fine search strategy. In the limit, when the width of p(x) goes to zero, the KL divergence function converges to the conventional external energy term (which can be seen a special case) of active contours. Our method produces robust segmentation results from arbitrary initialization positions.
Starting Page	2798
Ending Page	2804
File Size	3247144
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424439928
ISSN	10636919
DOI	10.1109/CVPR.2009.5206552
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-06-20
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Image segmentation Active contours Probability density function Shape Biomedical imaging Image converters Annealing Robustness Power engineering and energy Deformable models
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Software

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