function [u,v] = GVF(f, mu, ITER)%GVF Compute gradient vector flow.%   [u,v] = GVF(f, mu, ITER) computes the%   GVF of an edge map f.  mu is the GVF regularization coefficient%   and ITER is the number of iterations that will be computed.  %   Chenyang Xu and Jerry L. Prince 6/17/97%   Copyright (c) 1996-99 by Chenyang Xu and Jerry L. Prince%   Image Analysis and Communications Lab, Johns Hopkins University%   modified on 9/9/99 by Chenyang Xu%   MATLAB do not deal their boundary condition for gradient and del2 %   consistently between MATLAB 4.2 and MATLAB 5. Hence I modify%   the function to take care of this issue by the code itself.%   Also, in the previous version, the input "f" is assumed to have been%   normalized to the range [0,1] before the function is called. %   In this version, "f" is normalized inside the function to avoid %   potential error of inputing an unnormalized "f".[m,n] = size(f);fmin  = min(f(:));fmax  = max(f(:));f = (f-fmin)/(fmax-fmin);  % Normalize f to the range [0,1]f = BoundMirrorExpand(f);  % Take care of boundary condition[fx,fy] = gradient(f);     % Calculate the gradient of the edge mapu = fx; v = fy;            % Initialize GVF to the gradientSqrMagf = fx.*fx + fy.*fy; % Squared magnitude of the gradient field% Iteratively solve for the GVF u,vfor i=1:ITER,  u = BoundMirrorEnsure(u);  v = BoundMirrorEnsure(v);  u = u + mu*4*del2(u) - SqrMagf.*(u-fx);  v = v + mu*4*del2(v) - SqrMagf.*(v-fy);  fprintf(1, '%3d', i);  if (rem(i,20) == 0)     fprintf(1, '\n');  end endfprintf(1, '\n');u = BoundMirrorShrink(u);v = BoundMirrorShrink(v);