Two-Phase Image Segmentation by the Allen-Cahn Equation and a Nonlocal Edge Detection Operator

Two-Phase Image Segmentation by the Allen-Cahn Equation and a Nonlocal Edge Detection Operator

Year:    2022

Author:    Zhonghua Qiao, Qian Zhang

Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Vol. 15 (2022), Iss. 4 : pp. 1147–1172

Abstract

Based on a nonlocal Laplacian operator, a novel edge detection method of the grayscale image is proposed in this paper. This operator utilizes the information of neighbor pixels for a given pixel to obtain effective and delicate edge detection. The nonlocal edge detection method is used as an initialization for solving the Allen-Cahn equation to achieve two-phase segmentation of the grayscale image. Efficient exponential time differencing (ETD) solvers are employed in the time integration, and finite difference method is adopted in space discretization. The maximum bound principle and energy stability of the proposed numerical schemes are proved. The capability of our segmentation method has been verified in numerical experiments for different types of grayscale images.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/nmtma.OA-2022-0008s

Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Vol. 15 (2022), Iss. 4 : pp. 1147–1172

Published online:    2022-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    26

Keywords:    Image segmentation Allen-Cahn equation nonlocal edge detection operator maximum principle energy stability

Author Details

Zhonghua Qiao

Qian Zhang

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