Threshold selection using a minimal histogram entropy difference

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1976-1981

  Sahoo, Prasanna K ^a,b,c,d,e   Slaaf, Dick W ^b,f,g   Albert, Thomas A ^a,c,h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^e IEEE   (Argentina)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h Culver Stockton College   (United States)

ⁱ University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic thresholding; Entropy; Gray level histogram; Probability density function; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000674354     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601404     Document Type: Article

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