In this study we conduct an exhaustive survey of image thresholding methods, categorize them and express their formulae under a uniform notation, and finally carry their performance comparison. The thresholding methods are categorized according to the information they are exploiting, such as: histogram shape, measurement space clustering, entropy, object attributes, spatial correlation and loca...

Image thresholding is one of the most powerful techniques for image segmentation, but it is not always satisfactory in applications under uneven illuminations. Adaptive image thresholding is used to find the optimal window for solving the illumination problem. In this paper, a novel window selection method for adaptive local thresholding is proposed. Based on simulated annealing, the proposed a...

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 number of thresholding methods have been proposed over the years. In this paper, we present a survey of thresholding techniques and update the earlier survey work by Weszka (Comput. 3-16). We attempt to evaluate the...

introduction: nowadays virtual colonoscopy has become a reliable and efficient method of detecting primary stages of colon cancer such as polyp detection. one of the most important and crucial stages of virtual colonoscopy is colon segmentation because an incorrect segmentation may lead to a misdiagnosis.  materials and methods: in this work, a hybrid method based on geometric deformable models...

This research paper describes an image change detection method based upon the Discrete Fractional Fourier transform (DFrFT) along with intensity normalization and thresholding. DFrFT is used as it provides extra degree of freedom to detect accurate changed regions. The use of intensity normalization and thresholding ensure that change is based on appearance or disappearance of objects only, wit...

Most thresholding algorithms have difficulties processing images with unimodal distributions. In this paper an algorithm, based on finding a corner in the histogram plot, is proposed that is capable of performing bilevel thresholding of such images. Its effectiveness is demonstrated on synthetic data as well as a variety of real data, showing its successful application to edges, corners, differ...

In order to detect targets upon sea surface or near it, marine radars should be capable of distinguishing signals of target reflections from the sea clutter. Our proposed method in this paper relates to detection of dissimilar marine targets in an inhomogeneous environment with clutter and non-stationary noises, and is based on adaptive thresholding determination methods. The variance and t...

The de-noising is a challenging task in the field of signal and image processing. Any natural image corrupted by gussian noise can be de-noised using wavelet method. Wavelet-based image denoising is an important technique in the area of image noise reduction. Wavelets have their natural ability to represent images in a very sparse form which is the foundation of wavelet-based denoising through ...

Many image enhancement and thresholding techniques make use of spatial neighbourhood information to boost belief in extended areas of signal. The most common such approach in neuroimaging is cluster-based thresholding, which is often more sensitive than voxel-wise thresholding. However, a limitation is the need to define the initial cluster-forming threshold. This threshold is arbitrary, and ye...