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A Concurrent SOM-Based Chan-Vese Model for Image Segmentation

Abdelsamea, Mohammed and Gnecco, Giorgio and Gaber, Mohamed Medhat A Concurrent SOM-Based Chan-Vese Model for Image Segmentation. In: Advances in Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 295 . Springer, pp. 199-208. ISBN 978-3-319-07694-2 (2014)

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Abstract

Concurrent Self Organizing Maps (CSOMs) deal with the pattern classification problem in a parallel processing way, aiming to minimize a suitable objective function. Similarly, Active Contour Models (ACMs) (e.g., the Chan-Vese (CV) model) deal with the image segmentation problem as an optimization problem by minimizing a suitable energy functional. The effectiveness of ACMs is a real challenge in many computer vision applications. In this paper, we propose a novel regional ACM, which relies on a CSOM to approximate the foreground and background image intensity distributions in a supervised way, and to drive the active-contour evolution accordingly. We term our model Concurrent Self Organizing Map-based Chan-Vese (CSOM-CV) model. Its main idea is to concurrently integrate the global information extracted by a CSOM from a few supervised pixels into the level-set framework of the CV model to build an effective ACM. Experimental results show the effectiveness of CSOM-CV in segmenting synthetic and real images, when compared with the stand-alone CV and CSOM models.

Item Type: Book Section
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07695-9_19
Uncontrolled Keywords: Image segmentation; Chan-Vese model; Concurrent Self Organizing Maps; global active contours; neural networks
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Research Area: Computer Science and Applications
Depositing User: Caterina Tangheroni
Date Deposited: 15 Dec 2015 11:27
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2016 10:39
URI: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/2972

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