The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal

2015, 9 : 1139-1144
Published online 2015 September 10. DOI: 10.2174/1874110X01509011139
Publisher ID: TOCSJ-9-1139

Application of Proximity Operator in the MR Image Segmentation

Dongsheng Ji , Yukai Yao , Qingjun Yang , Kaiming Liao and Xiaoyun Chen
School of Information Science& Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China.

ABSTRACT

this paper presents a proximity operator based GAC approach to MR image segmentation method. Our method is a combination of geodesic active contours and the optimization tool of proximity operator in that it uses proximity operator to iteratively deform the contour. Consequently, it has the following advantages. The operator has the ability to jump over local minima and provide a more global result. The proximity operator is used to solve GAC fast image segmentation model, gets an efficient iterative algorithm. Our approach easily extends to the segmentation of MRI objects and not sensitive to the noise. In addition, the algorithm is suitable for interactive correction and is shown to always converge. Experimental results and analyses are provided.

Keywords:

Geodesic active contours, image segmentation, MRI, proximity operator.