Introduction - If you have any usage issues, please Google them yourself
Active contours is a popular technique for image seg-
mentation. However, active contour tend to converge to the
closest local minimum of its energy function and often re-
quires a close boundary initialization. We introduce a new
approach that overcomes the close boundary initialization
problembyreformulatingtheexternalenergyterm. We treat
theactivecontourasameancurveoftheprobabilitydensity