A mixed model of active geodesic contours with gradient vector flows for X-ray microtomography segmentation

The structural characterization of weathered building stones of historical monuments can be achieved with a powerfull imagering technique, X-ray microtomography. It requires however a carefull extraction of each phase constituting the sample from the raw gray-level images obtained (the segmentation process). This contribution presents an original method of segmentation of such images that combines active contour models driven by gradient vector flows with a morphological preprocessing, alternate sequential filters. Preliminary results on high resolution, structuraly complex images are presented and compared to more classical approaches.

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