S. Zhu and A. Yuille, Region competition: unifying snakes, region growing, energy/Bayes/MDL for multi-band image segmentation, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, pp.884-900, 1996.
DOI : 10.1109/ICCV.1995.466909

N. Paragios and R. Deriche, Geodesic Active Regions: A New Framework to Deal with Frame Partition Problems in Computer Vision, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol.13, issue.1-2, pp.249-268, 2002.
DOI : 10.1006/jvci.2001.0475

P. Martin, P. Réfrégier, F. Goudail, and F. Guérault, Influence of the noise model on level set active contour segmentation, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.26, issue.6, pp.799-803, 2004.
DOI : 10.1109/TPAMI.2004.11
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00079480

M. C. Delfour and J. P. Zolésio, Shape and geometries, Advances in Design and Control, SIAM, 2001.

S. Jehan-besson, M. Barlaud, and G. Aubert, DREAM 2 S: Deformable regions driven by an eulerian accurate minimization method for image and video segmentation, Int. J. of Comp. Vis, issue.53, pp.45-70, 2003.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00664596

G. Aubert, M. Barlaud, O. Faugeras, and S. Jehan-besson, Image Segmentation Using Active Contours: Calculus of Variations or Shape Gradients?, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, vol.63, issue.6, pp.2128-2154, 2003.
DOI : 10.1137/S0036139902408928
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/inria-00072105

V. Caselles, R. Kimmel, and G. Sapiro, Geodesic active contours, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, pp.61-79, 1997.
DOI : 10.1109/ICCV.1995.466871
URL : http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.21.2196

P. J. Bickel and K. A. Docksum, Mathematical statistics: basic ideas and selected topics, 2001.

L. Vese and T. Chan, A multiphase level set framework for image segmentation using the mumford and shah model, International Journal of Computer Vision, vol.50, issue.3, pp.271-293, 2002.
DOI : 10.1023/A:1020874308076