A performance evaluation of statistical tests for edge detection in textured images

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 122, Issue , 2014, Pages 115-130

  Williams, Ian ^a   Bowring, Nicholas ^b   Svoboda, David ^c  

^a BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Histological images; Performance measures; Statistical tests; Textured images

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION;

CANNY EDGE DETECTION; HISTOLOGICAL IMAGES; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; ROBUST EDGE DETECTION; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TEXTURED IMAGES;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 84897996446     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2014.02.009     Document Type: Article

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