Active Contour Method Combining Local Fitting Energy and Global Fitting Energy Dynamically

To get better segmentation results, local information and global information should be taken into consideration together. In this paper, we propose a new energy functional which combines a local intensity fitting term and an auxiliary global intensity fitting term, and we also give the method to adjust the weight of auxiliary global fitting term dynamically by using local contrast of the image. The combination of the two terms improves the accuracy of segmentation results obviously while reduces dependence on location of initial contour. The experiment results proved the effectiveness of our method.

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