Local image fitting-based active contour for vector-valued images

• Published in: Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Main Author: Azam A.S.B.; Jumaat A.K.; Maasar M.A.; Laham M.F.; Rahman N.N.A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science 2023
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85174162808&doi=10.11591%2fijeecs.v32.i1.pp227-235&partnerID=40&md5=9a5535a880630d0e63cfb6995bed83c5

Variational active contour seeks to segment or extract desired object boundaries for further analysis. The model can be divided into global segmentation and selective segmentation. Selective segmentation, which focuses on segmenting a particular object, is preferable to the global model. Recently, a number of selective segmentation models have been developed to precisely extract an object on grayscale images. Nevertheless, if the input image is vector-valued (colour), these models merely convert it to a grayscale image, resulting in data loss owing to the reduction in image dimension. Furthermore, they may have poor segmentation performance due to the intensity inhomogeneous images. Therefore, a new model on variational selective active contour for segmenting vector-valued images has been proposed that incorporates the concepts of local image fitting and distance-based fitting terms into a variational minimization energy functional. Moreover, a Gaussian function was used as a regularizer to replace the computationally expensive Total Variation term. Then, the proposed model’s Euler Lagrange equation has been provided to solve the model. When segmenting an object in inhomogeneous intensity images, the result of the proposed model was about 30% more accurate based on the Jaccard value and about 3 times faster than other existing methods. © 2023 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved.