Image Segmentation Based on Hybrid Adaptive Active Contour

In this paper, we focus on segmentation based active contour model. In fact, we present an hybrid adaptive active contour segmentation algorithm. In this approach, we merge a global and an adaptive local based active contour models in order to segment images. The proposed energy is then minimized based on level set method. Experiments shows the good segmentation results provided by the proposed method.

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