Automatic threshold selection using histogram quantization

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 211-217

  Wang, Yue ^a   Aclali, Tülay ^b   Lo, Shih Chung B ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; Histogram quantization; Image analysis; Multilevel thresholding

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000607091     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.268965     Document Type: Article

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