Optimal multilevel thresholding based on Tsallis entropy using Fibonacci Particle Swarm Optimization for improved Image Segmentation

Author(s):  
N. Apoorva ◽  
Divya Ramesh ◽  
K. Manikantan ◽  
S. Ramachandran
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Abdul Kayom Md Khairuzzaman ◽  
Saurabh Chaudhury

Multilevel thresholding is widely used in brain magnetic resonance (MR) image segmentation. In this article, a multilevel thresholding-based brain MR image segmentation technique is proposed. The image is first filtered using anisotropic diffusion. Then multilevel thresholding based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) is performed on the filtered image to get the final segmented image. Otsu function is used to select the thresholds. The proposed technique is compared with standard PSO and bacterial foraging optimization (BFO) based multilevel thresholding techniques. The objective image quality metrics such as Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Mean Structural SIMilarity (MSSIM) index are used to evaluate the quality of the segmented images. The experimental results suggest that the proposed technique gives significantly better-quality image segmentation compared to the other techniques when applied to T2-weitghted brain MR images.


2012 ◽  
Vol 532-533 ◽  
pp. 1741-1746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Tao Peng ◽  
Kang Ling Fang ◽  
Zhi Qi Su ◽  
Shi Hong Li

To determine the optimal thresholds in image segmentation, a new multilevel thresholding method based on improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, use the conception of independent peaks to divide the histogram to several regions, secondly, the optimization object function using maximum between-class variance (MV) method can be gotten in each area, by the non-uniform mutation and Geese-LDW PSO optimization of the object function, the optimal thresholds can be gotten, and the image can be segmented with the thresholds. Compared with the basic MV algorithm and genetic algorithm (GA) modified MV, the experimental results show that the new method not only realizes the image segmentation well, but also improves the speed.


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