Novel Adaptive Balloon Active Contour Method based on internal force for image segmentation – A systematic evaluation on synthetic and real images

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Highlights：

• A new internal force to optimize the Adaptive Balloon Active Contour Method (AB ACM).

• Efficiency and effectiveness of segmentation by the AB ACM using synthetic images with different levels of complexity.

• Performance comparison of the proposed method with other traditional ACM.

• Application of the optimized algorithm in the segmentation of Industrial and Biomedical images.

摘要

•A new internal force to optimize the Adaptive Balloon Active Contour Method (AB ACM).•Efficiency and effectiveness of segmentation by the AB ACM using synthetic images with different levels of complexity.•Performance comparison of the proposed method with other traditional ACM.•Application of the optimized algorithm in the segmentation of Industrial and Biomedical images.

论文关键词：Active Contour Method,Adaptive Balloon,Image segmentation,Optimization

论文评审过程：Available online 11 July 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.07.013