A new approach to image segmentation based on simplified region growing PCNN

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 807-814

  Lu, Yunfeng ^a   Miao, Jun ^b   Duan, Lijuan ^a   Qiao, Yuanhua ^a   Jia, Ruixin ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Pulse coupled neural network (PCNN); Region growing; Simplified region growing PCNN (SRG PCNN)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PIXELS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

ADJUSTING PARAMETERS; APPROPRIATE PARAMETERS; CHANNEL FUNCTIONS; EDGE PIXELS; EFFICIENT METHODS; LINKING; NEW APPROACHES; PCNN MODELS; PULSE COUPLED NEURAL NETWORK (PCNN); PULSE COUPLED NEURAL NETWORKS; REGION GROWING; SIMPLIFIED REGION GROWING PCNN (SRG-PCNN);

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 54249094597     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2008.05.029     Document Type: Article

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