Yet another survey on image segmentation: Region and boundary information integration

J Freixenet, X Munoz, D Raba, J Martí… - Computer Vision—ECCV …, 2002‏ - Springer
Image segmentation has been, and still is, a relevant research area in Computer Vision, and
hundreds of segmentation algorithms have been proposed in the last 30 years. However, it …

Strategies for image segmentation combining region and boundary information

X Muñoz, J Freixenet, X Cufı, J Martı - Pattern recognition letters, 2003‏ - Elsevier
Image segmentation has been, and still is, an important research area in Computer Vision,
and hundreds of segmentation algorithms have been proposed in the last 30 years …

Survey over image thresholding techniques and quantitative performance evaluation

M Sezgin, B Sankur - Journal of Electronic imaging, 2004‏ - spiedigitallibrary.org
We conduct an exhaustive survey of image thresholding methods, categorize them, express
their formulas under a uniform notation, and finally carry their performance comparison. The …

Minimum error thresholding

J Kittler, J Illingworth - Pattern recognition, 1986‏ - Elsevier
MINIMUM ERROR THRESHOLDING Page 1 Pattern Recognition. Vol. 19. No. 1, pp. 41-47,
1986. Printed in Great Britain. 0031 3203'86 $3.00+ .00 Pergamon Press Ltd t 1986 Pattern …

A survey of thresholding techniques

PK Sahoo, S Soltani, AKC Wong - Computer vision, graphics, and image …, 1988‏ - Elsevier
In digital image processing, thresholding is a well-known technique for image segmentation.
Because of its wide applicability to other areas of the digital image processing, quite a …

Characteristic analysis of Otsu threshold and its applications

X Xu, S Xu, L **, E Song - Pattern recognition letters, 2011‏ - Elsevier
This paper proves that Otsu threshold is equal to the average of the mean levels of two
classes partitioned by this threshold. Therefore, when the within-class variances of two …

Improved automatic detection and segmentation of cell nuclei in histopathology images

Y Al-Kofahi, W Lassoued, W Lee… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic segmentation of cell nuclei is an essential step in image cytometry and histometry.
Despite substantial progress, there is a need to improve accuracy, speed, level of …

A comparative performance study of several global thresholding techniques for segmentation

SU Lee, SY Chung, RH Park - Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image …, 1990‏ - Elsevier
A comparative performance study of five global thresholding algorithms for image
segmentation was investigated. An image database with a wide variety of histogram …

Robust document image binarization technique for degraded document images

B Su, S Lu, CL Tan - IEEE transactions on image processing, 2012‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Segmentation of text from badly degraded document images is a very challenging task due
to the high inter/intra-variation between the document background and the foreground text of …

Adaptive degraded document image binarization

B Gatos, I Pratikakis, SJ Perantonis - Pattern recognition, 2006‏ - Elsevier
This paper presents a new adaptive approach for the binarization and enhancement of
degraded documents. The proposed method does not require any parameter tuning by the …