An image segmentation-based thresholding method

Journal of Imaging Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Pai, Pei Yan ^a   Chang, Chin Chen ^a,b   Chan, Yung Kuan ^c   Tsai, Meng Hsiun ^c   Guo, Shu Wei ^c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; HISTORICAL DATA; OBJECT CONTOUR; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; THRESHOLDING; THRESHOLDING METHODS; WITHIN-CLASS VARIANCES;

CHEMISTRY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84875459468     PISSN: 10623701     EISSN: 19433522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2352/J.ImagingSci.Technol.2012.56.3.030503     Document Type: Article

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