Application in Stomach Epidermis Tumors Segmentation by GVF Snake Model

Abstract

GVF snake model means gradient vector flow snake model. It is a representative of the active contour model and it has been used to solve image segmentation for some conglutinated images. GVF snake model is also a new accurate arithmetic to obtain the boundary of the object edge especially for those stomach epidermis tumors which have several conglutinated areas. As the first step of this arithmetic, many pretreatment processes are necessary such as the gauss blur and the edge mapping to get the clearer image boundary before starting the image segmentation. The next step after pretreatment processes is calculating the GVF outside force field which makes the snake move quicker to the object boundary after the initial points been selected. The experiments also show that as the key parameter of GVF snake model, mu must be set below 0.3 in order to get better segmentation results, otherwise the snake cannot move closer to the object boundary because the GVF outside force field dies down.