A novel technique for multilevel optimal magnetic resonance brain image thresholding using bacterial foraging

Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1124-1134

  Maitra, Madhubanti ^a   Chatterjee, Amitava ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bacterial foraging; Brain MRI; Histogram; Image segmentation; Multilevel thresholding; Particle swarm optimization

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BACTERIOLOGY; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; RESONANCE;

BACTERIAL FORAGING; BRAIN MRI; HISTOGRAM; MULTILEVEL THRESHOLDING; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 54549102444     PISSN: 02632241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.measurement.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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