Extended Topological Active Nets
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Highlights：
• ETANs overcome the limitations of TANs while keeping their promising features.
• ETANs combine the best capabilities of two DMs, TANs and EVFC snakes.
• ETANs employ novel mechanisms to tackle topological changes, as link cuts and holes.
• ETANs employ node movement constraints to avoid crossing links.
• ETANs employ a new local search procedure and a new automatic pre-processing phase.
摘要
•ETANs overcome the limitations of TANs while keeping their promising features.•ETANs combine the best capabilities of two DMs, TANs and EVFC snakes.•ETANs employ novel mechanisms to tackle topological changes, as link cuts and holes.•ETANs employ node movement constraints to avoid crossing links.•ETANs employ a new local search procedure and a new automatic pre-processing phase.
论文关键词：Deformable models,Active contours,Snakes,Level sets,Chan and Vese,Geodesic Active Contours,Active nets,Topological Active Nets,Extended Topological Active Nets,Local search optimization,External force,Gradient Vector Flow,Vector Field Convolution
论文评审过程：Received 17 January 2013, Revised 5 May 2013, Accepted 23 September 2013, Available online 10 October 2013.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2013.09.004
