Novel fuzzy entropy approach to image enhancement and thresholding

Signal Processing

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 277-301

  Cheng, H D ^a   Chen, Yen Hung ^a   Sun, Ying ^a  

^a Utah State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUZZY SETS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

FUZZY ENTROPY; IMAGE THRESHOLDING;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0032690272     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1684(98)00239-4     Document Type: Article

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