Thresholding is a simple but effective technique for image segmentation. In this paper, a general locally adaptive thresholding methods using neighborhood processing is presented. Local adaptive techniques are more effective in eliminating both uneven lighting disturbance, noise and ghost objects. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness, locally adaptive thresholding methods namely Niblack, S...

This paper presents a new signal denoising method based on the classical three step procedure analysis-thresholdsynthesis and the Spectral Intrinsic Decomposition (SID). This method consists of an iterative thresholding of the SID components. If the wavelets denoising approach depends on the choice of the wavelet form, the SID-denoising proposed in this paper is self adaptive. The SID-based rem...

In this paper, we compare Fourier-based and wavelet-based denoising techniques applied to both synthetic and real experimental geophysical data. The Fourier-based technique used for comparison is the classical Wiener estimator, and the wavelet-based techniques tested include soft and hard wavelet thresholding and the empirical Bayes (EB) method. Both real and synthetic data sets were used to co...

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 thresholding methods are categorized according to the information they are exploiting, such as histogram shape, measurement space clustering, entropy, object attributes, spatial correlation, and local gray-level surf...

This paper presents a novel image thresholding algorithm, termed as random spatial sampling and majority voting based image thresholding algorithm (RMIT). RMIT firstly obtains a population of binary subimages by using random spatial sampling and Otsu’s thresholding algorithm [1]. Then RMIT aggregates these binary subimages into a consensus binary image by majority voting technique. Since the su...

Thresholding based iterative algorithms have the trade-off between effectiveness and optimality. Some are effective but involving sub-matrix inversions in every step of iterations. For systems of large sizes, such algorithms can be computationally expensive and/or prohibitive. The null space tuning algorithm with hard thresholding and feedbacks (NST+HT+FB) has a mean to expedite its procedure b...

A single thresholding technique may not provide the best binarization for all images of datasets such as protein crystallization images. To overcome this limitation, multiple thresholding methods are used to binarize images. Whenever multiple thresholding techniques are used, it is important to know which one provides the best result automatically. To solve this problem, in this study, we propo...

skin cancer has been the most usual and illustrates 50% of all new cancers detected each year. if they detected at an early stage, treatment can become simple and economically. accurate skin lesion segmentation is important in automated early skin cancer detection and diagnosis systems. the aim of this study is to provide an effective approach to detect the skin lesion border on a purposed imag...