A clustering approach for the separation of touching edges in particle images

Particle and Particle Systems Characterization

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 143-152

  Korath, Jose M ^a   Abbas, Ali ^a   Romagnoli, Jose A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Image analysis; Particle; Particle size; Segmentation; Touching edges

Indexed keywords

FUZZY CLUSTERING; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PIXELS;

FUZZY C-MEANS ALGORITHM; FUZZY CLUSTERS; TOUCHING EDGES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 43249085785     PISSN: 09340866     EISSN: 15214117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppsc.200701107     Document Type: Article

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