The focus of this thesis is on polar active contours, i.e. a sub-class of active contours which can only describe star-shaped objects. It is suggested to solve the associated energy minimization problems in so-called Sobolev spaces which are endowed with a metric that allows the user to weight translations, scale-changes, and smooth deformations of the curve during the optimization process. The resulting polar active contours enjoy several properties which are particularly desirable for medical applications. When generalizing these ideas to surface evolutions, however, one has to solve a partial differential equation (PDE) in two or three dimensions in every iteration step. Thus, efficient numerical techniques for solving this PDE – not only for the star-shaped case – are developed and compared to the ones arising from other regularization strategies.
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The focus of this thesis is on polar active contours, i.e. a sub-class of active contours which can only describe star-shaped objects. It is suggested to solve the associated energy minimization problems in so-called Sobolev spaces which are endowed with a metric that allows the user to weight translations, scale-changes, and smooth deformations of the curve during the optimization process. The resulting polar active contours enjoy several properties which are particularly desirable for medical...
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