The invention discloses a method for automatically cutting a granular object in a digital image, belonging to the technical field of digital image processing. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly, separating an object from a background by applying an automatic threshold method by aiming at characteristics such as gray level, structural distribution, geometry and the like of the granular object in the digital image, particularly a microscopic image; then, calculating a gradient vector field of the object, and searching a key point in the gradient vector field, wherein the idealkey point has corresponding gradient vector distribution in eight neighborhoods, the gradient value of the key point is zero, and the acquired key point is used as the center of each granular object;next, defining a new effective energy function based on the gray level and a space position so as to calculate a direction gradient to replace the traditional gray level gradient; and finally, searching the boundary of the granular object by applying an active contour model. By using the method, the aggregated granular object can be accurately and effectively cut, particularly, a great number of adhered or overlapped micro-grains exist in a biomedical microscopic image, and therefore, help is provided for the image analysis and identification.