Poor convergence to concave boundaries is a limitation in the use of snakes as a contour approximation technique. The external force for active contours, called gradient vector flow (GVF), has provided a remarkable improvement to this problem. However, the technique requires high computation time for reliable concavity performance. In this paper, we propose an efficient solution to overcome the...

Traditional GVF snake model has enlarged capture range and improved the convergence capability for boundary concavities, but it cannot efficiently solve the convergence problem for an image with deep boundary concavities and high noise. In this paper, by integrating the region force derived from the region information of interested object in an image into the force balance equation, a novel sna...

Many applications, from everyday file system browsers to visual programming tools, require the display of network and graph structures. The Graph Visualization Framework (GVF) is an architecture that supports the tasks common to most graph browsers and editors. This article gives a brief overview of the design of the GVF and focuses on the core classes that are used to represent and manipulate ...

PURPOSE Reliable outcome measures are needed to estimate changes in peripheral vision during future treatment clinical trials for retinal degeneration patients. The authors examined the short-term variability of Goldmann visual field (GVF) results converted to retinal areas in retinitis pigmentosa (RP) subjects. METHODS Two within-visit GVFs were obtained from one eye each of 37 RP subjects w...

The selection criteria for multiphase boosting options remain somewhat subjective and are frequently influenced by the vendors’ data, which may mask potential limitations of this emerging technology. Existing literature on multiphase pumping tends to focus on a certain pump type for a specific field application, but does not provide more-generalized criteria for the selection of multiphase boos...

BACKGROUND The study aims to correlate Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) with Goldmann visual field (GVF) to show the photoreceptor (PR) structure and function relationship in the first described case of cancer-associated retinopathy (CAR) from Merkel cell carcinoma. FINDINGS A case study of a patient with CAR who was imaged with serial GVF and FD-OCT over a 2-year period w...

Active contours, or snakes, have extensive applications in image segmentation. Conventional snakes have several drawbacks, such as the initialization contour sensitivity and border leakage phenomenon. Many new methods have been proposed to address these problems. In this paper, we present an improved image segmentation method based on snakes. Firstly, we adopt the multi-step direction method to...

Active contour, or snake, is an energy minimizing spline that is useful in image boundary detection. Active contours are stimulated by internal forces, image forces and external forces which maintain the shape of the contours while attract the contours to some desired features, usually edges. Problems in implementing active contours such as convergence and initialization have motivated research...