Novel gradient vector flow-based balloon force for active contours.
Guopu ZhuShuqun ZhangXijun ChenChanghong WangPublished in: J. Electronic Imaging (2009)
Keyphrases
- gradient vector flow
- active contours
- external force
- force field
- external forces
- active contour model
- gvf snake
- level set
- object boundaries
- image segmentation
- vector field
- level set method
- shape prior
- energy functional
- segmentation method
- geometric active contours
- deformable models
- snake model
- energy function
- edge preserving
- curve evolution
- improved algorithm
- diffusion process
- level set evolution
- electric field
- multiscale