Title : 
3D Fast Level Set Image Segmentation Based on Chan-Vese Model
         
        
            Author : 
Jianyuan Dong ; Chongyang Hao
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electron. & Inf., NorthWestern Polytech. Univ., Xi´an, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper, we propose 3D fast level set segmentation base on Chan-Vese Model. Define the signed distance as integers without computation, and creative construct the evolution speed field of surface by the partial differential equation for Chan-Vese model (only the sign is velocity is used), we implement 3D fast level set segmentation without solving partial differential equation. It preserve the advantages of Chan-Vese model that detect objects whose boundaries are not necessarily defined by gradient or without edges. Finally we present some segmentation experiment for 2D and 3D medical image.
         
        
            Keywords : 
image segmentation; medical image processing; partial differential equations; physiological models; Chan-Vese model; evolution speed field; image segmentation; medical image; partial differential equation; Active contours; Biomedical imaging; Curve fitting; Electronic mail; Grid computing; Image edge detection; Image segmentation; Level set; Object detection; Partial differential equations;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , 2009. ICBBE 2009. 3rd International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Beijing
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2901-1
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2902-8
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5162136