A survey: Ant Colony Optimization based recent research and implementation on several engineering domain

BC Mohan, R Baskaran - Expert Systems with Applications, 2012 - Elsevier
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a Swarm Intelligence technique which inspired from the
foraging behaviour of real ant colonies. The ants deposit pheromone on the ground in order …

An optimum multi-level image thresholding segmentation using non-local means 2D histogram and exponential Kbest gravitational search algorithm

H Mittal, M Saraswat - Engineering applications of artificial intelligence, 2018 - Elsevier
Multi-level image thresholding segmentation divides an image into multiple non-overlap**
regions. This paper presents a novel two-dimensional (2D) histogram-based segmentation …

Color image segmentation using histogram thresholding–Fuzzy C-means hybrid approach

KS Tan, NAM Isa - Pattern recognition, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel histogram thresholding–fuzzy C-means hybrid (HTFCM)
approach that could find different application in pattern recognition as well as in computer …

An efficient multilevel thresholding image segmentation method based on the slime mould algorithm with bee foraging mechanism: A real case with lupus nephritis …

X Chen, H Huang, AA Heidari, C Sun, Y Lv… - Computers in Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
To improve the diagnosis of Lupus Nephritis (LN), a multilevel LN image segmentation
method is developed in this paper based on an improved slime mould algorithm. The search …

A multi-level thresholding image segmentation method using hybrid Arithmetic Optimization and Harris Hawks Optimizer algorithms

L Qiao, K Liu, Y Xue, W Tang, T Salehnia - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
Today, image segmentation methods are widely used for various applications, including
object detection. Multilevel Thresholding Image Segmentation (MTIS) methods are among …

A multilevel color image thresholding scheme based on minimum cross entropy and differential evolution

S Sarkar, S Das, SS Chaudhuri - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
We propose a novel multi-level thresholding method for unsupervised separation between
objects and background from a natural color image using the concept of the minimum cross …

Unsupervised color image segmentation: A case of RGB histogram based K-means clustering initialization

S Basar, M Ali, G Ochoa-Ruiz, M Zareei, A Waheed… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Color-based image segmentation classifies pixels of digital images in numerous groups for
further analysis in computer vision, pattern recognition, image understanding, and image …

Iteratively Reweighted Algorithm for Fuzzy -Means

J Xue, F Nie, R Wang, X Li - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fuzzy-means method (FCM) is a popular clustering method, which uses alternating iteration
algorithm to update membership matrix and center matrix of size. However, original FCM …

Survey of contemporary trends in color image segmentation

SR Vantaram, E Saber - Journal of Electronic Imaging, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In recent years, the acquisition of image and video information for processing, analysis,
understanding, and exploitation of the underlying content in various applications, ranging …

Local segmentation of images using an improved fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm based on self-adaptive dictionary learning

J Miao, X Zhou, TZ Huang - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
Image segmentation is an active research topic in image processing. The Fuzzy C-means
(FCM) clustering analysis has been widely used in image segmentation. As there is a large …