Active contour implementation
Sorry if it's too late. I was looking for Matlab Exchange when I knew almost nothing about active loops and found the code in the link below quite useful:
http://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/fileexchange/28149-snake-active-contour
There are many comments in the code explaining what each option does, and if you look at the links it links to (which I highly recommend you do), you should be able to tweak those options to suit your project's needs. There are some simple examples too.
I have only used the 2D version, so I cannot comment on the effectiveness of the 3D version. I found the 2D version to be an easy introduction to active contour algorithms.
A word of warning, inter2 being called in code is slow, you might want to replace it with a faster one.
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There are two active contour models: parametric deforms and geometric deforms. I've been working on parametric deformable models and I want to present you with some great code:
Parametric deformable model code:
iacl.ece.jhu.edu/Projects/gvf/
Written by Xiu, author of GVF. He completed the traditional active models, balloon models, range map and GVF in his code.
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