An adaptable threshold decision method

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2285-2299

  Tsai, Meng Hsiun ^a   Wang, Ming Hung ^a   Chang, Ting Yuan ^b   Pai, Pei Yan ^c   Chan, Yung Kuan ^a   Chen, Jui Ming ^d  

^a National Chung Shing University   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Information Management   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Otsu's method; Serial images; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DECISION METHOD; OBJECT CONTOUR; OTSU'S METHOD; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SERIAL IMAGES; STANDARD DEVIATION; THRESHOLDING; THRESHOLDING METHODS;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77953012441     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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