Active Contour Models Driven by Hyperbolic Mean Curvature Flow for Image Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06712v1
• Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2025 08:29:40 GMT
• Title: Active Contour Models Driven by Hyperbolic Mean Curvature Flow for Image Segmentation
• Authors: Saiyu Hu, Chunlei He, Jianfeng Zhang, Dexing Kong, Shoujun Huang,
• Abstract summary: Mean curvature flow-driven active contour models (PMCF-ACMs) are widely used in image segmentation.<n>We propose several hyperbolic mean curvature flow-driven ACMs, which introduce tunable initial velocity fields.<n> Experiments show that both HMCF-ACMs and HDRF-ACMs could achieve more precise segmentations.
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• Abstract: Parabolic mean curvature flow-driven active contour models (PMCF-ACMs) are widely used in image segmentation, which however depend heavily on the selection of initial curve configurations. In this paper, we firstly propose several hyperbolic mean curvature flow-driven ACMs (HMCF-ACMs), which introduce tunable initial velocity fields, enabling adaptive optimization for diverse segmentation scenarios. We shall prove that HMCF-ACMs are indeed normal flows and establish the numerical equivalence between dissipative HMCF formulations and certain wave equations using the level set method with signed distance function. Building on this framework, we furthermore develop hyperbolic dual-mode regularized flow-driven ACMs (HDRF-ACMs), which utilize smooth Heaviside functions for edge-aware force modulation to suppress over-diffusion near weak boundaries. Then, we optimize a weighted fourth-order Runge-Kutta algorithm with nine-point stencil spatial discretization when solving the above-mentioned wave equations. Experiments show that both HMCF-ACMs and HDRF-ACMs could achieve more precise segmentations with superior noise resistance and numerical stability due to task-adaptive configurations of initial velocities and initial contours.

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