Riemannian Mean Curvature Flow

In this paper we explicitly derive a level set formulation for mean curvature flow in a Riemannian metric space. This extends the traditional geodesic active contour framework which is based on conformal flows. Curve evolution for image segmentation can be posed as a Riemannian evolution process where the induced metric is related to the local structure tensor. Examples on both synthetic and real data are shown.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ISVC
• Authors: Raúl San José Estépar, Steven Haker, Carl-Fredrik Westin
• Keywords: Geodesic Active Contour, ISVC 2005, Riemannian Evolution Process, Riemannian Metric Space