A New Kernel-Based Fuzzy Level Set Method for Automated Segmentation of Medical Images in the Presence of Intensity Inhomogeneity

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Level set segmentation of the CT vessel by various initializations: (a), (c), and (e) are manual initialization; (b), (d), (f), and (h) are final segmentation after 300, 163, 172, and 40 iterations, respectively, with 𝜆=0.003,  𝜇=1,  and  𝜈=1; and (g) is initialization by the GKFCM.

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