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Volume 41, Issue 4
Two-Phase Image Segmentation by Nonconvex Nonsmooth Models with Convergent Alternating Minimization Algorithms

Weina Wang, Nannan Tian & Chunlin Wu

J. Comp. Math., 41 (2023), pp. 588-622.

Published online: 2023-02

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  • Abstract

Two-phase image segmentation is a fundamental task to partition an image into foreground and background. In this paper, two types of nonconvex and nonsmooth regularization models are proposed for basic two-phase segmentation. They extend the convex regularization on the characteristic function on the image domain to the nonconvex case, which are able to better obtain piecewise constant regions with neat boundaries. By analyzing the proposed non-Lipschitz model, we combine the proximal alternating minimization framework with support shrinkage and linearization strategies to design our algorithm. This leads to two alternating strongly convex subproblems which can be easily solved. Similarly, we present an algorithm without support shrinkage operation for the nonconvex Lipschitz case. Using the Kurdyka-Łojasiewicz property of the objective function, we prove that the limit point of the generated sequence is a critical point of the original nonconvex nonsmooth problem. Numerical experiments and comparisons illustrate the effectiveness of our method in two-phase image segmentation.

  • AMS Subject Headings

94A08, 90C25, 68U10, 47A52, 65K10

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COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

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wucl@nankai.edu.cn (Chunlin Wu)

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@Article{JCM-41-588, author = {Wang , WeinaTian , Nannan and Wu , Chunlin}, title = {Two-Phase Image Segmentation by Nonconvex Nonsmooth Models with Convergent Alternating Minimization Algorithms}, journal = {Journal of Computational Mathematics}, year = {2023}, volume = {41}, number = {4}, pages = {588--622}, abstract = {

Two-phase image segmentation is a fundamental task to partition an image into foreground and background. In this paper, two types of nonconvex and nonsmooth regularization models are proposed for basic two-phase segmentation. They extend the convex regularization on the characteristic function on the image domain to the nonconvex case, which are able to better obtain piecewise constant regions with neat boundaries. By analyzing the proposed non-Lipschitz model, we combine the proximal alternating minimization framework with support shrinkage and linearization strategies to design our algorithm. This leads to two alternating strongly convex subproblems which can be easily solved. Similarly, we present an algorithm without support shrinkage operation for the nonconvex Lipschitz case. Using the Kurdyka-Łojasiewicz property of the objective function, we prove that the limit point of the generated sequence is a critical point of the original nonconvex nonsmooth problem. Numerical experiments and comparisons illustrate the effectiveness of our method in two-phase image segmentation.

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TY - JOUR T1 - Two-Phase Image Segmentation by Nonconvex Nonsmooth Models with Convergent Alternating Minimization Algorithms AU - Wang , Weina AU - Tian , Nannan AU - Wu , Chunlin JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics VL - 4 SP - 588 EP - 622 PY - 2023 DA - 2023/02 SN - 41 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.2108-m2021-0057 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/21407.html KW - Nonconvex nonsmooth regularization, Characteristic function, Box constraints, Support shrinking, alternating minimization, Kurdyka- Lojasiewicz property, Image segmentation. AB -

Two-phase image segmentation is a fundamental task to partition an image into foreground and background. In this paper, two types of nonconvex and nonsmooth regularization models are proposed for basic two-phase segmentation. They extend the convex regularization on the characteristic function on the image domain to the nonconvex case, which are able to better obtain piecewise constant regions with neat boundaries. By analyzing the proposed non-Lipschitz model, we combine the proximal alternating minimization framework with support shrinkage and linearization strategies to design our algorithm. This leads to two alternating strongly convex subproblems which can be easily solved. Similarly, we present an algorithm without support shrinkage operation for the nonconvex Lipschitz case. Using the Kurdyka-Łojasiewicz property of the objective function, we prove that the limit point of the generated sequence is a critical point of the original nonconvex nonsmooth problem. Numerical experiments and comparisons illustrate the effectiveness of our method in two-phase image segmentation.

Weina Wang, Nannan Tian & Chunlin Wu. (2023). Two-Phase Image Segmentation by Nonconvex Nonsmooth Models with Convergent Alternating Minimization Algorithms. Journal of Computational Mathematics. 41 (4). 588-622. doi:10.4208/jcm.2108-m2021-0057
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