Active contour model is one of the most popular image segmentation frameworks. Conventional active contour model requires the empirical adjustment of smoothing parameter in energy functional and the smoothing parameter for active contour is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose an automated adjustment method for the smoothing parameter in region-based active contour models and thus a full automated segmentation method is obtained. In proposed active contour model, the region term is the same as that in traditional region-based active contour model, whereas the prior term in traditio...
