Computer-Assisted Segmentation of Videocapsule Images Using Alpha-Divergence-Based Active Contour in the Framework of Intestinal Pathologies Detection

Algorithm 1

(1) Initialization

  (i)

  (ii) and (depends on active contour initialization)

  (iii)

(2) Optimization

 While , do:

  (a) For :

    Iteration of convergence process of the curve

     and update

  (b) For fixed and :

    Iteration of optimization process for

     value update

  (c)

 End while