Automatic multilevel thresholding for image segmentation by the growing time adaptive self-organizing map

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1388-1393

  Shah Hosseini, Hamed ^b   Safabakhsh, Reza ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Automatic multilevel thresholding; Histogram; Image segmentation; Self organizing map; TASOM; Time adaptive

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC MULTILEVEL THRESHOLDING; GAUSSIAN FUNCTION; IMAGE THRESHOLDING; ITERATIVE THRESHOLD SELECTION METHOD; TIME ADAPTIVE SELF ORGANIZING MAP;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0036808525     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2002.1039209     Document Type: Article

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