An Automatically Initialized Level Set Method for Ochotona Curzoniae Image Segmentation

In order to effectively solve this problem that that the traditional level set method needs to mark the initial contour manually, a novel method that automatic initialization by utilizing deep learning is proposed in this paper. Firstly, a target detection network based on Faster-RCNN is used for target detection of ochotona curzoniae. Secondly, the detected target boxes are regarded as the initial contour of level set models, and ochotona curzoniae images are segmented by level set models, by which the problem of manually plotting the initial contour required by traditional level set models is solved. The experimental results of ochotona curzoniae image segmentation show that there is little difference between the level set segmentation method in which the initial contour of the target is automatically generated by deep learning(LSECA) is used to automatically target initial contour and the level set segmentation method where initial contour needs to be manually plotted. Therefore, the experimental results prove that it is feasible to automatically obtain the target initial contour through deep learning.