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This paper proposes a segmentation method which combines Active contour model with Sobel edge detection. The introduction of distance regular-ized formulation eliminates the need for reinitialization when we minimize the energy function by using the level set method. We test our method on MR im-age and compare it with several methods in the literature. The results achieved are better than the ones of existing techniques, showing the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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Zhang, H., Wang, Y., Liu, Q., Di Huang (2015). MR Image Segmentation Using Active Contour Model Incorporated with Sobel Edge Detection. In: Zha, H., Chen, X., Wang, L., Miao, Q. (eds) Computer Vision. CCCV 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 546. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48558-3_43
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