结合局部能量与改进的符号距离正则项的图像目标分割算法

针对传统C-V模型对颜色不均匀图像分割失败并且对初始轮廓和位置敏感问题,以及现有符号距离正则项存在周期性振荡和局部极值问题。该文提出结合局部能量信息和改进的符号距离正则项的图像目标分割算法。首先,将全局图像信息扩展到HSV空间,并使用局部能量项信息分析每个像素及其领域内的统计特性,从而在较少的迭代次数内有效分割颜色分布不均匀图像。其次,改进现有符号距离正则项,改进后的符号距离正则项在避免水平集函数的重新初始化的同时,提高了计算效率,保证了水平集函数演化过程的稳定性。然后,定义阈值判断法的水平集函数演化的终止准则,使曲线准确演化到目标轮廓。该算法与同类模型的对比实验表明该模型具有较高的分割精度和对初始轮廓的鲁棒性。     

基于水平集的热红外运动人体目标分割算法

水平集活动轮廓模型是一种优秀的图像分割方法.针对红外人体检测系统中的图像分割难题,提出了一种基于水平集活动轮廓模型的新算法.该算法包含水平集运动检测模块、水平集亮度检测模块和融合模块.水平集运动检测模块融合了水平集和背景相减技术,通过演化水平集函数同时实现前景分割和背景估计,它用于检测序列中的运动区域,并将其演化结果输入到下一检测模块.水平集亮度检测模块融合了水平集和阈值分割技术.在给出双阈值时,可分割出亮度在双阈值所限定范围内图像区域,它用于检测序列图像序列中可能包含人体目标的全部区域.利用形态学开重建技术,融合模块在融合前两个模块检测结果后输出算法最终分割结果.此外,采用快速数值算法演化水平集检测模块以及优化设置整个算法流程,改善算法运行效率.实验结果表明,相对其他典型算法,该算法具有较高分割精度和运行效率,且对时序亮度变化和镜头运动鲁棒性更好.     

结合边界和区域的水平集超声图像分割算法

针对距离正则化的水平集演化（DRLSE）模型难以处理弱边缘图像、初始轮廓敏感以及曲线演化方向单一等问题,提出一种结合边缘和区域信息的变分水平集超声图像分割模型。该模型采用改进的四阶偏微分方程进行滤波,实现在去除噪声的同时保护图像边缘信息;构造了自适应加权系数,实现曲线自适应地向内或者向外演化;引入CV模型的外部能量项,将图像的边缘信息和区域信息相结合,提高了全局分割能力。实验结果表明：该方法在分割超声图像时,具有演化结果稳定,边缘定位准确的特点,可以较好地提取超声图像中的目标。     

图像分割中局部能量驱动的快速主动轮廓模型

为了解决图像对象灰度分布不一致性的分割难题,提高图像分割速度,提出了一个全新的快速主动轮廓模型。它由曲线周围局部的统计信息驱动曲线发生形变演化,并使用图像中的边缘信息来引导曲线的演化方向。模型中,根据区域模板与演化曲线共同定义的局部统计信息创建数据拟合项,并应用水平集方法求解曲线的演化。对合成图像和医学图像的实验结果表明,本文提出的分割模型可以同时分割多个灰度不一致的对象,分割速度快,结果稳定,对噪声具有很好的鲁棒性。     

利用局部离散度活动轮廓模型的强度非均匀图像分割

强度非均匀现象在真实图像中普遍存在,采用常规基于强度的分割算法会导致严重的误分割。针对强度非均匀图像分割,提出了基于局部离散度的活动轮廓模型分割算法。首先定义基于类内类间距离的离散度,然后利用核函数提取局部区域信息,同时加入边缘指示函数加权的轮廓线长度项能量,建立基于局部离散度的活动轮廓模型。最后引入水平集函数惩罚项,避免水平集方法在演化求解时需要不断初始化的问题。合成图像和真实图像实验结果证明本文算法性能稳定,适应于强度非均匀图像的分割。      

甲状腺结节超声图像分割算法研究

超声甲状腺结节分割是发现与识别甲状腺良恶性肿瘤的关键技术之一.针对模糊聚类法无法准确分割超声图像甲状腺结节边缘,而局部拟合(RSF)模型法对手动初始化轮廓敏感的问题,提出一种融合空间约束模糊C均值聚类和局部拟合RSF模型的分割结节方法.用空间约束模糊C均值聚类法(SKFCM)对图像进行聚类并二值化聚类结果作为RSF模型法初始轮廓,克服了RSF模型法对初始轮廓敏感问题,水平集演化参数也将通过聚类结果自动给出,不再需要人为设定.同时改进了RSF模型法拟合项,并利用高斯正则化规则RSF模型水平集,提高了RSF模型演化效率,缩短了收敛时间.仿真实验结果表明,提出的甲状腺结节超声图像分割方法能够快速准确地分割出结节区域.     

基于边缘和区域信息相结合的变分 水平集图像分割方法

 针对GAC模型和C-V模型分别存在对弱边缘和灰度渐进图像分割效果不理想以及演化效率低等问题,提出了一种基于边缘和区域信息相结合的变分水平集图像分割方法.结合了图像边缘梯度信息和区域全局信息的能量函数作为模型的外部能量项,引入内部变形能量约束水平集函数来逼近符号距离函数,省去了重新初始化水平集函数的过程,并融入了物体形状先验知识的附加约束信息,提高了分割精度.实验结果表明,论文所用方法对分割噪声弱边缘图像和灰度渐进图像具有一定的有效性和可行性.     

结合图像局部信息和Hausdorff距离的活动轮廓模型医学图像分割算法

本文提出了一种新的基于距离局部信息的活动轮廓摸型。该模型的能量函数将区域可扩展能量项(region scalable fitting, RSF)和Hausdorff距离项结合,其中RSF项在目标边缘附近起主导作用,用来吸引水平集函数曲线到达目标边界;而Hausdorff距离由于包含了局部区域的相似信息,可以提高分割方法的稳定性。在保证分割精度的情况下,相对于区域可伸缩拟合及局部巴氏距离的活动轮廓模型RSFB方法,本文方法具有更快的收敛速度和更好的参数选择鲁棒性,对于解决图像分割中的边界模糊和噪声问题效果显著。实验结果显示本文提出的方法在超声图像和不均匀图像的分割中都有非常好的效果,且计算量较小。      

改进边界指示函数的水平集活动轮廓模型

由于受成像原理的限制,导致超声图像对比度低、边界模糊,因此基于边界的水平集分割效果很不理想。为了提高超声图像的分割精度和分割效率,提出了一种梯度信息与区域信息相结合的水平集分割算法。首先对基于边界的距离正则化水平集演化(DRLSE)模型进行改进,将区域信息引入到边界指示函数中,并用改进后的边界指示函数代替DRLSE模型中的边界指示函数,最后,得到一个梯度与区域信息相结合的水平集演化模型。结果表明,本文中的模型能准确分割甲状腺肿瘤超声图像,且在分割效率和分割精确度方面均比DRLSE模型有所提高。     

一种基于改进Chan-Vese模型的红外图像分割方法

为了解决基于Chan-Vese(CV)模型的传统水平集方法难以分割灰度不均匀红外图像的问题,本文提出一种基于改进CV模型的水平集分割方法。通过加入可处理局部区域信息的局部项,使得改进的CV模型能够有效避免不均匀背景对水平集演化过程的干扰。此外,通过加入符号距离能量惩罚项,使得该模型无需重新初始化过程,从而提高了水平集函数的演化效率。实验结果表明,本文方法对于红外图像的分割具有较高的精度。     

Minimization of region-scalable fitting energy for image segmentation

Intensity inhomogeneities often occur in real-world images and may cause considerable difficulties in image segmentation. In order to overcome the difficulties caused by intensity inhomogeneities, we propose a region-based active contour model that draws upon intensity information in local regions at a controllable scale. A data fitting energy is defined in terms of a contour and two fitting functions that locally approximate the image intensities on the two sides of the contour. This energy is then incorporated into a variational level set formulation with a level set regularization term, from which a curve evolution equation is derived for energy minimization. Due to a kernel function in the data fitting term, intensity information in local regions is extracted to guide the motion of the contour, which thereby enables our model to cope with intensity inhomogeneity. In addition, the regularity of the level set function is intrinsically preserved by the level set regularization term to ensure accurate computation and avoids expensive reinitialization of the evolving level set function. Experimental results for synthetic and real images show desirable performances of our method.     

Active contours driven by local Gaussian distribution fitting energy

This paper presents a new region-based active contour model in a variational level set formulation for image segmentation. In our model, the local image intensities are described by Gaussian distributions with different means and variances. We define a local Gaussian distribution fitting energy with a level set function and local means and variances as variables. The energy minimization is achieved by an interleaved level set evolution and estimation of local intensity means and variances in an iterative process. The means and variances of local intensities are considered as spatially varying functions to handle intensity inhomogeneities and noise of spatially varying strength (e.g. multiplicative noise). In addition, our model is able to distinguish regions with similar intensity means but different variances. This is demonstrated by applying our method on noisy and texture images in which the texture patterns of different regions can be distinguished from the local intensity variance. Comparative experiments show the advantages of the proposed method.     

Image segmentation based on multi-region multi-scale local binary fitting and Kullback–Leibler divergence

The inhomogeneity of intensity and the noise of image are the two major obstacles to accurate image segmentation by region-based level set models. To provide a more general solution to these challenges and address the difficulty of image segmentation methods to handle an arbitrary number of regions, we propose a region-based multi-phase level set method, which is based on the multi-scale local binary fitting (MLBF) and the Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence, called KL–MMLBF. We first apply the multi-scale theory and multi-phase level set framework to the local binary fitting model to build the multi-region multi-scale local binary fitting (MMLBF). Then the energy term measured by KL divergence between regions to be segmented is incorporated into the energy function of MMLBF. KL–MMLBF utilizes the between-cluster distance and the adaptive kernel function selection strategy to formulate the energy function. Being more robust to the initial location of the contour than the classical segmentation models, KL–MMLBF can deal with blurry boundaries and noise problems. The results of experiments on synthetic and medical images have shown that KL–MMLBF can improve the effectiveness of segmentation while ensuring the accuracy by accelerating this minimization of this energy function and the model has achieved better segmentation results in terms of both accuracy and efficiency to analyze the multi-region image.     

一种新的基于局部信息的拟合模型

对于局部不均匀的图像来说,局部图像信息在图像分割中是非常关键的,然而C-V模型中则缺乏这样的信息。我们提出了一种新的融合了局部边界信息的水平集模型--局部最大最小信息模型,因此此模型能够有效地改进C-V模型在分割不均匀图像方面的性能,即可以解决局部不均匀图像的分割问题克服C-V模型所遇到的一些困难。最终,通过对人工的和真实的图像上的实验证明该模型可以有效地分割局部不均匀图像。     

A moment-based unified approach to image feature detection

In this paper, a novel model-based approach is proposed for generating a set of image feature maps (or primal sketches). For each type of feature, a piecewise smooth parametric model is developed to characterize the local intensity function in an image. Projections of the intensity profile onto a set of orthogonal Zernike-moment-generating polynomials are used to estimate model-parameters and, in turn, generate the desired feature map. A small set of moment-based detectors is identified that can extract various kinds of primal sketches from intensity as well as range images. One main advantage of using parametric model-based techniques is that it is possible to extract complete information (i.e., model parameters) about the underlying image feature, which is desirable in many high-level vision tasks. Experimental results are included to demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed feature detectors.     

一种基于多特征的距离正则化水平集快速分割方法

现有的图像分割模型存在对初始化信息敏感,分割速率慢,图像弱边界区的泄露等现象.提出了一种混合快速分割方法.该方法利用偏压场近似估计图像的局部统计信息,并结合全局信息相容性及改进的距离正则化方法建立模型,最后将模型嵌入水平集框架中,与此同时,引入双重终止准则以提高分割的速度.最后利用合成图像和真实图像进行分割实验,并与CV（Chan-Vese）模型、非线性自适应水平集方法以及局部尺度拟合模型对比,表明本方法不仅对初始化信息敏感度降低,而且分割速度提高3~5倍.