ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, vol.73, pp.22-30, 2018 (Journal Indexed in SCI)
The active contours without edges model of Chan and Vese (Chan and Vese, 2001), which has been accepted for two-phase image segmentation is one of the most widely-used methods. It is a region-based segmentation model that utilizes the techniques of curve evolvement and the level set method.