In this paper, we propose the use of the Level–Set Method as the underlying technology of a volume sculpting system. The main motivation is that this leads to a very generic technique for deformation of volumetric solids. In addition, our method preserves a distance field volume representation. A scaling window is used to adapt the Level– Set Method to local deformations and to allow the user t...

In positron emission tomography (PET), a radioactive compound is injected into the body to promote a tissue-dependent emission rate. Expectation maximization (EM) reconstruction algorithms are iterative techniques which estimate the concentration coefficients that provide the best fitted solution, for example, a maximum likelihood estimate. In this paper, we combine the EM algorithm with a leve...

A level set based detail extraction method from images is presented in this paper. The method uses level set to encode the large-scale variation in the image and extracts detail from this variation. This method can compute the detail from images quite fast. The separated detail can be used for compensating the detail loss in High Dynamic Range (HDR) image compression using global tone mapping a...

We propose a three-dimensional level set method for dislocation dynamics in which the dislocation lines are represented in three dimensions by the intersection of the zero levels of two level set functions. Since the level set method does not discretize nor directly track individual dislocation line segments, it easily handles topological changes occurring in the microstructure. The dislocation...

The adaptive distance preserving level set (ADPLS) method is fast and not dependent on the initial contour for the segmentation of images with intensity inhomogeneity, but it often leads to segmentation with compromised accuracy. And the local binary fitting model (LBF) method can achieve segmentation with higher accuracy but with low speed and sensitivity to initial contour placements. In this...

1. Generalities about domain, or surface evolution problems 2 2. The Level Set Method for describing domain or interface evolution 3 2.1. Level Set framework and geometry 3 2.2. Surface evolution in the level set framework 4 2.3. A glimpse at the mathematical framework 5 2.4. Domain evolution as a boundary value problem: Eikonal equations 8 3. A model application of the level set framework 10 4...