Chen Pengxiang, Yang Shengyuan. Fast image segmentation based on region-scalable fitting background removal model[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2016, 21(6): 683-690. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20160601.
Image segmentation is one of the most important research contents in the field of image processing and is widely used in real life. Most of the involved models that are based on PDE or calculus of variations are non-convex
so they are easy to get into local minimums
and most of these experiment results which we get are not satisfactory. Besides
the calculation time of these models is too slow to meet the actual demand. Therefore
according to the background removal model and the regional fitting method
we proposed a new image segmentation model in this article. Firstly
following the principle of the background removal
we did some reforms to the original background removal model. With the application of region-scalable fitting method and Heaviside function we get a new region-scalable fitting background removal model. However
the improved model here is not a convex model
and cannot get the global minimum solution
so we make convex optimization to the improved model to get a convex model to solve this problem. Finally
by using the Split Bregman method and level set method
the global minimum solution of the model can be obtained. Comparing with ICV(improved Chan-Vese) model
LK(Li-Kim) model and CV(Chan-Vese) model
several numerical experiment results show that the proposed model in this article has a better performance on image segmentation. Meanwhile
the experiment also demonstrates that the proposed model in this article is more efficient than RSF(region-scalable fitting) model in the case of similar segmentation results. Finally the experiment results also show that different initial positions have little effect on image segmentation results which demonstrates that our model is low sensitive to initialize contour curve. When dealing with the MRI images and synthetic images
the model presents in this paper can not only obtain good segmentation results
but also has a high efficiency on segmentation. The experiment results also show that the model in this article is robust.