关键词: 图像分割, 活动轮廓模型, 动态梯度向量流

Abstract: Traditional active contour models based on the gradient vector flow can only produce static force field，in
which the equilibrium problem often occurs and it causes a difficulty in the convergence of the contour curve to a long concave boundary． In order to solve this problem，a dynamic gradient vector flow model is proposed in this paper． In the model，first，a dynamic force field is generated by adopting an indicative function relevant to the evolving contour curve to weigh the edge gradient map． Then，the edge stopping function is employed to control the convergence of the evolving contour curve． The proposed model makes full use of the information of the evolving contour curve，and thus it avoids the premature convergence caused by the equilibrium problem of static external force field and pushes the contour to evolve to the concavity boundary． Simulation results show that，in comparison with the traditional models，the proposed model can segment the long concave boundary of the object successfully and achieves better segmentation results in extracting the complex boundary of the object．

Key words: image segmentation, active contour model, dynamic gradient vector flow