Software
MAC Model
We propose an active contour model using an external force field that is based on magnetostatics and hypothesised magnetic interactions between the active contour and object boundaries. The major contribution of the method is that the interaction of its forces can greatly improve the active contour in capturing complex geometries and dealing with difficult initializations, weak edges and broken boundaries. The proposed method is shown to achieve significant improvements when compared against six well-known and state-of-the-art shape recovery methods, including the geodesic snake, the generalised version of GVF snake, the combined geodesic and GVF snake, and the charged particle model.
Attach:MAC01.jpg Δ | Initial MAC Snake
Attach:MAC16.jpg Δ | Converged MAC Snake
Attach:angio.gif Δ | MAC Evolution
- Xianghua Xie and Majid Mirmehdi, MAC: Magnetostatic Active Contour Model, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, volume 30, number 4, pages 632 - 646, IEEE CS Press, April 2008. Download paper Δ.
- An executable demo software written in JAVA for both Linux and Windows platforms can be downloaded from HERE Δ. Please email me for password to unzip: x.xie at swansea.ac.uk
- Latest release: MAC-exe-release3.1.zip Δ (June 2008).
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