Optimal multilevel thresholding using bacterial foraging algorithm

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 15549-15564

  Sathya, P D ^a   Kayalvizhi, R ^a  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bacterial foraging; Histogram; Image segmentation; Kapur's function; Multilevel thresholding; Otsu's function

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL FORAGING; HISTOGRAM; KAPUR'S FUNCTION; MULTILEVEL THRESHOLDING; OTSU'S FUNCTION;

BACTERIOLOGY; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 80052031412     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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