Abstract
In this paper, we introduce multi-symplectic Lagrangian variational integrators for solving Chan-Vese active contour models in image segmentation. Energy functionals are discretized firstly, and numerical schemes are derived from discrete Euler-Lagrange equations based on discrete variational principle. Lagrangian variational integrators preserve native differential structure-multi-symplecticity, that makes the numerical methods have a satisfied behavior. Experiments are performed on the benchmark images from literature. We further evaluated the methods in a segmentation database containing 1023 images. It shows that the proposed numerical schemes attain relatively faster convergence rates and better segmentation accuracy. Comparisons with the standard explicit Euler method of the original Chan-Vese model and other fast numerical optimization methods show that the proposed methods have better stability, higher accuracy, and are more robust when dealing with a large number of pictures. This study provides an example for further research to improve the performance of other existing image segmentation methods based on active contour models.
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