Creaseg: A free software for the evaluation of image segmentation algorithms based on level-set

This paper describes a free open source software in Matlab (named Creaseg, http://www.creatis.insa-lyon. fr/~bernard/creaseg) for the evaluation of the performance of different level-set based algorithms in the context of 2D image segmentation. The platform gives access to the implementation of six level-set methods that have been chosen in order to cover a wide range of data attachment terms (contour, region and localized approaches). The software also gives the possibility to compare the performance of the proposed algorithms on any kind of images. The performance can be evaluated either visually, or from similarity measurements between a reference and the results of the segmentation.