Despite the promising results of numerous applications, the hitherto proposed snake techniques share some common problems: snake attraction by spurious edge points, snake degeneration (shrinking and flattening), convergence and stability of the deformation process, snake initialization and local determination of the parameters of elasticity. We argue here that these problems can be solved only when all the snake aspects are considered. The snakes proposed here implement a new potential field and external force in order to provide a deformation convergence, attraction by both near and far edges as well as snake behaviour selective according to the edge orientation. Furthermore, we conclude that in the case of model-based segmentation, the internal force should include structural information about the expected snake shape. Experiments using this kind of snakes for segmenting bones in complex hand radiographs show a significant improvement.<>


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    Title :

    A snake for model-based segmentation


    Contributors:
    Radeva, P. (author) / Serrat, J. (author) / Marti, E. (author)


    Publication date :

    1995-01-01


    Size :

    702828 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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