Minimum cross-entropy threshold selection

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 179-188

  Brink, A D ^a   Pendock, N E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Correlation; Cross entropy; Maximum entropy; Pearson's x2; Segmentation; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; METRIC SYSTEM; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CROSS-ENTROPY; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; THRESHOLDING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CROSS ENTROPY; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; THRESHOLDING;

EID: 0029669423     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(95)00066-6     Document Type: Article

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