A Minimum Description Length-Based Image Segmentation Procedure, and its Comparison with a Cross-Validation-Based Segmentation Procedure

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 95, Issue 449, 2000, Pages 259-270

  Lee, Thomas C M ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross validation; Image segmentation; Minimum description length; Piecewise constant function fitting; Region merging; Segmentation quality evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442293887     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2000.10473919     Document Type: Article

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