• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제18권7호
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• pp.827-833
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• 2015

In this paper, we have compared three level set-based active contour (LSAC) methods on inhomogeneous MR image segmentation which is known as an important role of brain diseases to diagnosis and treatment in early. MR image is often occurred a problem with similar intensities and weak boundaries which have been causing many segmentation methods. However, LSAC method could be able to segment the targets such as the level set based on the local image fitting energy, the local binary fitting energy, and local Gaussian distribution fitting energy. Our implemented and tested the subcortical image segmentations were the corpus callosum and hippocampus and finally demonstrated their effectiveness. Consequently, the level set based on local Gaussian distribution fitting energy has obtained the best model to accurate and robust for the subcortical image segmentation.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제40권5호
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• pp.303-311
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• 2003

MPEG-4 표준에서는 객체 단위의 부호화를 수행하기 위해 우선 자연영상으로부터 비디오 객체론 분리하는 영상분할(Segmentation) 기술이 필요하다. 영상분할 방법은 크게 자동 영상분할(Automatic Segment값ion)과 반자동 영상분할(Semi-automatic Segmentation)의 두 부류로 나눌 수 있다. 대부분의 자동 영상분할 방법은 비디오 객체의 명확한 모델을 수학적으로 제시하기 어려우므로 한 화면에서 개별 객체를 추출하기 어렵기 때문에 그 성능에 한계가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 극복하기 위해 기하학적인 Active Contour를 이용한 반자동 영상분할 알고리즘을 제안한다. 매개변수 방식의 Active Contour와 달리, 기하학적인 Active Contour는 곡선의 변화론 Level Set 방법을 이용하여 기술하기 때문에 초기 곡선의 모양을 객체의 모양과 무관하게 그릴 수 있다. 평탄화된 영상으로부터 경계함수를 생성하기 위해 이진화된 3차원 확산 모델을 사용하여 LUV 벡터 공간에서 비등방형 확산을 수행한다. 본 논문에서는 흐름 벡터장(Advection Vector Field)에서 곡선을 수축하고, 움직임 정보를 이용하여 곡선 확장하는 방법을 이용하여 동영상에서 객체를 분리하는 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.666-670
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a stable active contour based tracking method which utilizes the bimodal segmentation technique to obtain a background color diminished image frame. The proposed method overcomes the drawback of the Mansouri model which is liable to fall into a local minimum state when colors appear in the background that are similar to the target colors. The Mansouri model has been a foundation for active contour based tracking methods, since it is derived from a probability based interpretation. By stabilizing the model with the proposed speed function, the proposed model opens the way to extend probability based active contour tracking for practical applications.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제6권10호
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• pp.2809-2815
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• 1999

Level set, and active contour(snakes) models are extensively used for image segmentation or shape extraction in computer vision. Snakes utilize the energy minimization concepts, and level set is based on the curve evolution in order to extract contours from image data. In general, these two models have their own drawbacks. For instance, snake acts pooly unless it is placed close to the wanted shape boundary, and it has difficult problem when image has multiple objects to be extracted. But, level set method is free of initial curve position problem, and has ability to handle topology of multiple objects. Nevertheless, level set method requires much more calculation time compared to snake model. In this paper, we use good points of two described models and also apply multi resolution algorithm in order to speed up the process without decreasing the performance of the shape extraction.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.670-675
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• 2015

Medical imaging is one of the most powerful tools for gaining information about internal organs and tissues. It is a challenging task to develop sophisticated image analysis methods in order to improve the accuracy of diagnosis. The objective of this paper is to develop a Computer Aided Diagnostics (CAD) scheme for Brain Tumour detection from Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) using active contour models and to investigate with several approaches for improving CAD performances. The problem in clinical medicine is the automatic detection of brain Tumours with maximum accuracy and in less time. This work involves the following steps: i) Segmentation performed by Fuzzy Clustering with Level Set Method (FCMLSM) and performance is compared with snake models based on Balloon force and Gradient Vector Force (GVF), Distance Regularized Level Set Method (DRLSE). ii) Feature extraction done by Shape and Texture based features. iii) Brain Tumour detection performed by various tree classifiers. Based on investigation FCMLSM is well suited segmentation method and Random Forest is the most optimum classifier for this problem. This method gives accuracy of 97% and with minimum classification error. The time taken to detect Tumour is approximately 2 mins for an examination (30 slices).

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제28권3E호
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• pp.118-135
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• 2009

The level set based approach is one of active methods for contour extraction in image segmentation. Since Osher and Sethian introduced the level set framework in 1988, the method has made the great impact on image segmentation. However, there are some problems to be solved; such as multi-objects segmentation, noise filtering and much calculation amount. In this paper we address the drawbacks of the previous level set methods and propose an extension of the traditional fast level set to cope with the limitations. We introduce a relationship matrix, a new split-and-merge criterion, a modified Chan-Vese criterion and a novel filtering criterion into the traditional fast level set approach. With the segmentation experiments we evaluate the proposed method and show the promising results of the proposed method.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1997년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.541-545
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• 1997

This paper presents a modified geometric active contour model or edge detection and segmentation of computed tomography(CT) scan images. The method is based on the level setup approach developed by Osher and Sethian and the modeling of propagation fronts with curvature dependent speeds by Malladi. Based on above algorithms, the geometric active contour is obtained through a particular level set of hypersurface lowing along its gradient force and curvature force. This technique retains the attractive feature which is topological and geometric flexibility of the contour in recovering objects with complex shapes and unknown topologies. But there are limitations in this algorithm which are being not able to separate the object with weak difference from neighbor object. So we use speed limitation filter to overcome those problems. We apply a 2D model to various synthetic cases and the three cases of real CT scan images in order to segment objects with complicated shapes and topologies. From the results, the presented model confirms that it attracts very naturally and efficiently to the desired feature of CT scan images.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제4권5호
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• pp.660-667
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• 2006

This paper presents a novel region-based snake method for vessel segmentation. According to geometric shape analysis of the vessel structure with different scale, an efficient statistical estimation of vessel branches is introduced into the energy objective function, which applies not only the vessel intensity information, but also geometric information of line-like structure in the image. The defined energy function is minimized using the gradient descent method and a new region-based speed function is obtained, which is more accurate to the vessel structure and not sensitive to the initial condition. The narrow band algorithm in the level set framework implements the proposed method, the solution of which is steady. The segmentation experiments are shown on several images. Compared with other geometric active contour models, the proposed method is more efficient and robust.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.29-34
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 전처리 과정에서 원영상에 있는 잡음을 제거하기 위해 비등방성 필터를 적용하여 물체의 경계와 모양을 추출하기 위해 Osher와 Sethian이 제안한 레벨셋에 기초한 새로운 기하활성 모델을 제시한다. 처리과정에서 처리시간을 최소화하기 위하여 전체 영상에서가 아닌 경계 근처 이웃 픽셀에서만 계산을 수행하는 협대역 방법을 사용한다. 각 슬라이스들은 비등방 필터링을 통해 잡음을 제거하고 형태 추출된 결과영상을 3차원 데이터 셋으로 구성하여 볼륨 렌더링을 통해 2차원 평면에 잡음이 제거된 깨끗한 영상결과물을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.312-316
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• 2004

The paper presents a technique to identify the boundary of the optic disc in infant retinal digital images using an approach based on active contours (snakes). The technique can be used to be develop a automate system in order to help the ophthalmologist's diagnosis the retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) disease which may occurred on preterm infant,. The optic disc detection is one of the fundamental step which could help to create an automate diagnose system for the doctors we use a new kind of active contour (snake) method has been developed by Chenyang et. al. [1], based on a new type of external force field, called gradient vector flow, or GVF. GVF is computed as a diffusion of the gradient vectors of a gray-level or binary edge map derived from the image. The testing results on a set of infant retinal ROP images verify the effectiveness of the proposed methods. We show that GVF has a large capture range and it's able to move snakes into boundary concavities of optic disc and finally the optic disk boundary was determined.