Luminita A. Vese is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. She is the author or co-author of numerous papers and book chapters on the calculus of variations, PDEs, numerical analysis, image analysis, curve evolution, computer vision, and free boundary problems. Carole Le Guyader is an associate professor in the mathematical and software engineering department at the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Rouen. She has authored or co-authored many papers on analysis and simulation, digital imaging mathematics and applications, and parallel computing.
This book is a must-have for students and researchers working in mathematical image analysis, in particular on segmentation problems. It covers in a pedagogical way the mathematical foundations, classical convex and non-convex segmentation methods, as well as more advanced subjects such as non-local regularizations. This book also features a lot of graphical illustrations and pseudo-codes of algorithms. It showcases several concrete applications to medical imaging, and the availability of the corresponding MATLAB code is a great feature. -Gabriel Peyre, CNRS Senior Researcher, Universite Paris-Dauphine