Efficient optimal multi-level thresholding for biofilm image segmentation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5780 LNBI, Issue , 2009, Pages 307-318

  Rojas, Darío ^a   Rueda, Luis ^b   Urrutia, Homero ^c   Ngom, Alioune ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ATACAMA   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING VALIDITY; CLUSTERING VALIDITY INDEX; EXTRA-CELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION PROCESS; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MATRIX; MICROBIAL BIOFILM; MULTILEVEL THRESHOLDING; SEGMENTED IMAGES; THRESHOLDING;

BIOFILMS; BIOINFORMATICS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 70349849665     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04031-3_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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