The level Set Method was proposed by S. Osher and J. Sethian in 1988. There are lots of applications. Here are my publications related to level set method.
Semi-Automatic Extraction Algorithm of Ciliary Body from Visante Images by Chiu-Yen Kao, Kathryn Richdale, Loraine Sinnott and Melissa Bailey, submitted to Journal of Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics
Active Contours Driven by Local and Global Intensity Fitting Energy with Application to Brain MR Image Segmentation by Li Wang, Chunming Li, Quansen Sun, Deshen Xia, and Chiu-Yen Kao, submitted to Journal of Computerized Medical Imaging and Graohics
Properties of A Level Set Algorithm for the Visibility Problems by by Chiu-Yen Kao and Richard Tsai, UCLA Math CAM Reports 06-04 , Journal of Scientific Computing,35(2), Pages 170-191, 2008
Minimization of Region-Scalable Fitting Energy for Image Segmentation by Chunming Li, Chiu-Yen Kao, John C. Gore, and Zhaohua Ding, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 17(10), 2008
Brain MR Image Segmentation Using Local and Global Intensity Fitting Active Contours/Surfaces by Li Wang, Chunming Li, Quansen Sun, Deshen Xia, and Chiu-Yen Kao, MICCAI 2008
Brain MR Image Segmentation by Minimizing Scalable Neighborhood Intensity Fitting Energy: A Multiphase Level Set Approach by Chunming Li, Li Wang, Chiu-Yen Kao, John C. Gore, and Zhaohua Ding, ISMRM 2008
Incorporating Topological Derivatives into Shape Derivatives Based Level Set Methods by Lin He, Chiu-Yen Kao and Stanley Osher, UCLA Math CAM Report 06-44, Journal of Computational Physics, 225, Pages 891-909,2007
A Geometric Method for Automatic Extraction of Sulcal Fundi by Chiu-Yen Kao, Michael Hofer, Guillermo Sapiro, Kelly Rehm, Josh Stern, and David Rottenberg, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 26, Pages 530-540, 2007
Implicit Active Contours Driven by Local Binary Fitting Energy by Chunming Li, Chiu-Yen Kao, John C. Gore, and Zhaohua Ding, IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007
A Geometric Method for Automatic Extraction of Sulcal Fundi by Chiu-Yen Kao, Michael Hofer, Guillermo Sapiro, Josh Stern, and David Rottenberg, IMA preprints 2078 (ISBI, Pages 1168-1171) , Apr, 2006
Maximizing Band Gaps in Two Dimensional Photonic Crystals by Using Level Set Methods by Chiu-Yen Kao, Stanley Osher, and Eli Yablonovitch, UCLA Math CAM Reports 05-05, Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, 81, Pages 235-244,2005
