Multilevel image segmentation with adaptive image context based thresholding

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 946-962

  Bhattacharyya, Siddhartha ^a   Maulik, Ujjwal ^b   Dutta, Paramartha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c VISVA BHARATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Context sensitive thresholding; Multilevel activation function; Multilevel image segmentation; Multilevel thresholding mechanisms; Pyramidal neural network; Self organizing neural networks

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT SENSITIVE THRESHOLDING; MULTILEVEL ACTIVATION FUNCTION; MULTILEVEL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MULTILEVEL THRESHOLDING; PYRAMIDAL NEURAL NETWORK; SELF-ORGANIZING NEURAL NETWORK;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 77957920865     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2010.01.015     Document Type: Article

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