A nonparametric approach for histogram segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 253-261

  Delon, Julie ^a   Desolneux, Agnès ^b   Lisani, José Luis ^c   Petro, Ana Belén ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Document analysis; Histogram analysis; Histogram segmentation; Image segmentation; Parameter free method

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

HISTOGRAM ANALYSIS; HISTOGRAM SEGMENTATION; PARAMETER-FREE METHOD;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 33847703332     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.884951     Document Type: Article

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