Research Article

Automatic Image Segmentation Using Active Contours with Univariate Marginal Distribution

Table 1

Average similarity measure with the Jaccard and Dice indices among the regions segmented by the traditional ACM, interactive Tseng method, our proposed method, and the regions outlined by experts of the CT dataset.

Comparative studies Similarity measure
Jaccard index (J) Dice index (D)

ACM versus experts 0.6981 0.8222
Tseng versus experts 0.7647 0.8666
Our method versus experts 0.8367 0.9111