A new method for image segmentation using watershed transform algorithm is presented in this paper. It takes advantage of the fact that the proposed algorithm produced good results even if the same parameters are used for the standard segmentation algorithm. The proposed segmentation algorithm will be very effective for grid computing as it seems to possess specific tasks of image information and detection in order to obtain a detailed and accurate image analysis.
Watershed is an image segmentation algorithm based on mathematical morphology, which can determine the boundary of connected section efficiently and effectively. But the traditional watershed algorithm is sensitive to noise. To overcome the weakness of classical watershed, this paper presents an improved watershed algorithm based on gradient transform, open-close reconstruction and distance transform. The experiment result shows that application of this improved watershed algorithm in cell image segmentation has a good performance.
Implementation of Watershed Based Image Segmentation Algorithm using Distance Transform for Grid Computing
