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The purpose of this chapter is to give a synopsis of fundamental variational image segmentation methods. Reviewed are the Mumford and Shah formulation and its basic discrete implementations, the Zhu and Yuille region competition version by curve evolution, the Chan and Vese level set form and, finally, the active curve edge detection interpretations by Snakes and geodesic active contours.
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Mitiche, A., Ayed, I.B. (2010). Basic Methods. In: Variational and Level Set Methods in Image Segmentation. Springer Topics in Signal Processing, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15352-5_3
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