Active contours driven by Cuckoo Search strategy for brain tumour images segmentation

E Ilunga-Mbuyamba, JM Cruz-Duarte… - Expert Systems with …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
In this paper, an alternative Active Contour Model (ACM) driven by Multi-population Cuckoo
Search (CS) algorithm is introduced. This strategy assists the converging of control points …

An edge-based active contour model using an inflation/deflation force with a dam** coefficient

M Ciecholewski - Expert Systems with Applications, 2016‏ - Elsevier
This publication presents an edge-based active contour model using the inflation/deflation
force, allowing active contour nodes to be moved to find object boundaries in a digital …

A two-stage image segmentation via global and local region active contours

H Wang, TZ Huang, Z Xu, Y Wang - Neurocomputing, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Based on popular active contours, this paper proposes a novel two-stage image
segmentation method, which incorporates the global and local image region fitting energies …

Active contour model driven by self organizing maps for image segmentation

B Dong, G Weng, R ** - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Supervised active contour models can use information extracted from supervised samples to
guide contour evolution. However, their applicability is limited by the accuracy of the …

TASOM: a new time adaptive self-organizing map

H Shah-Hosseini, R Safabakhsh - IEEE Transactions on …, 2003‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The time adaptive self-organizing map (TASOM) network is a modified self-organizing map
(SOM) network with adaptive learning rates and neighborhood sizes as its learning …

An efficient Self-Organizing Active Contour model for image segmentation

MM Abdelsamea, G Gnecco, MM Gaber - Neurocomputing, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Active Contour Models (ACMs) constitute a powerful energy-based minimization
framework for image segmentation, based on the evolution of an active contour. Among …

Fast and robust object region segmentation with self-organized lattice Boltzmann based active contour method

FA Albalooshi, VK Asari - Journal of Electronic Imaging, 2024‏ - spiedigitallibrary.org
We propose an approach leveraging the power of self-organizing maps (SOMs) in
conjunction with a multiscale local image fitting (LIF) level-set function to enhance the …

A TASOM-based algorithm for active contour modeling

H Shah-Hosseini, R Safabakhsh - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2003‏ - Elsevier
Active contour modeling is a powerful technique for modeling object boundaries. Various
methods introduced for this purpose, however, have certain difficulties such as getting stuck …

A Survey of SOM-Based Active Contour Models for Image Segmentation

MM Abdelsamea, G Gnecco, MM Gaber - Advances in Self-Organizing …, 2014‏ - Springer
Abstract Self Organizing Maps (SOM s) have attracted the attention of many computer vision
scientists, particularly when dealing with image segmentation as a contour extraction …

A SOM-based Chan–Vese model for unsupervised image segmentation

MM Abdelsamea, G Gnecco, M Medhat Gaber - Soft Computing, 2017‏ - Springer
Abstract Active Contour Models (ACM s) constitute an efficient energy-based image
segmentation framework. They usually deal with the segmentation problem as an …