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In order to solve the time-consuming problem of the common methods, an SAR image segmentation method using region smoothing and label correction (RSLC) is proposed. In this algorithm, the image smoothing results are used to approximate the results of the spatial information polynomials of the image. Thus, the segmentation process can be realized quickly and effectively. Firstly, direction templates are used to detect the directions at different coordinates of the image, and smoothing templates are used to smooth the edge regions according to the directions. It achieves the smoothing of the edge regions and the retention of the edge information. Then the homogeneous regions are presented indirectly according to the difference of directions. The homogeneous regions are smoothed by using isotropic operators. Finally, the two regions are fused for K-means clustering. The majority voting algorithm is used to modify the clustering results, and the final segmentation results are obtained. 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