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A novel adaptive bidirectional balloon force model for image segmentation is proposed in this paper. Active contour model based on a balloon force field has been widely used to detect object boundaries. However, the unidirectional movement property demands that the active contour should be completely placed inside or outside the boundary, and this can easily cause leaking through weak edges and seriously...