AN EFFICIENT APPROACH TO COLOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING INTERMEDIATE FEATURES OF MAXIMUM OVERLAP WAVELET TRANSFORM IN PEAK FINDING ALGORITHM

2009 ◽  
Vol 09 (01) ◽  
pp. 67-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. VASUKI ◽  
L. GANESAN
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Color Image ◽  
Mean Shift ◽  
Color Image Segmentation ◽  
Translation Invariance ◽  
Mean Shift Algorithm ◽  
Peak Finding ◽  
Transform Coefficients ◽  
Image Segmentation Algorithm

In this paper a novel color image segmentation algorithm based on homogeneity histogram is proposed. The proposed approach uses intermediate features of maximum overlap wavelet transform (IMOWT). The IMOWT, which is the efficient transform, has been applied to color image segmentation for its time effectiveness, flexibility and translation invariance which are required for good segmentation results. The set of transform coefficients derived from wavelet domain are subjected to an efficient peak finding algorithm (PFA). PFA is employed to identify the most significant peaks of the homogeneity histogram. While we process the homogeneity histogram, both local and global information are taken into account. This is particularly helpful in taking care of small objects and local variations of the image. This method provides better segmentation results when compared to the direct application of PFA and Mean shift algorithm.

Color image segmentation based on mean shift and multi-feature fusion

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 2074-2076
Author(s):  
Hua LI ◽  
Ming-xin ZHANG ◽  
Jing-long ZHENG
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Color Image ◽  
Mean Shift ◽  
Color Image Segmentation

FAST INTERACTIVE REGIONAL PATTERN MERGING FOR GENERIC TISSUE SEGMENTATION IN HISTOPATHOLOGY IMAGES

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150012
Author(s):  
Kuo-Lung Lor ◽  
Chung-Ming Chen
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Color Image ◽  
Linear Time ◽  
Mean Shift ◽  
Texture Features ◽  
Color Image Segmentation ◽  
Image Size ◽  
Region Merging ◽  
Tissue Segmentation ◽  
Regional Pattern

The image segmentation of histopathological tissue images has always been a challenge due to the overlapping of tissue color distributions, the complexity of extracellular texture and the large image size. In this paper, we introduce a new region-merging algorithm, namely, the Regional Pattern Merging (RPM) for interactive color image segmentation and annotation, by efficiently retrieving and applying the user’s prior knowledge of stroke-based interaction. Low-level color/texture features of each region are used to compose a regional pattern adapted to differentiating a foreground object from the background scene. This iterative region-merging is based on a modified Region Adjacency Graph (RAG) model built from initial segmented results of the mean shift to speed up the merging process. The foreground region of interest (ROI) is segmented by the reduction of the background region and discrimination of uncertain regions. We then compare our method against state-of-the-art interactive image segmentation algorithms in both natural images and histological images. Taking into account the homogeneity of both color and texture, the resulting semi-supervised classification and interactive segmentation capture histological structures more completely than other intensity or color-based methods. Experimental results show that the merging of the RAG model runs in a linear time according to the number of graph edges, which is essentially faster than both traditional graph-based and region-based methods.

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