Inspec keywords: convex programming; concave programming; medical image processing; fuzzy set theory; Gaussian processes; image segmentation

Other keywords: contour initialisation; intensity inhomogeneity; initial contour; global region-based methods; local region-based methods; novel fuzzy energy-based active contour model; image intensity information; adaptive force; nonlocal weighted fuzzy energy-based active contour model; local energy term; level set evolution; Gaussian kernel; medical image segmentation; nonconvex functional optimization; convex function; constant function

Subjects: Other topics in statistics; Medical and biomedical uses of fields, radiations, and radioactivity; health physics; Other topics in statistics; Patient diagnostic methods and instrumentation; Optimisation techniques; Optical, image and video signal processing; Biology and medical computing; Algebra, set theory, and graph theory; Computer vision and image processing techniques; Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics; Biomedical measurement and imaging; Optimisation techniques; Combinatorial mathematics; Combinatorial mathematics