An Interval Iteration Based Multilevel Thresholding Algorithm for Brain MR Image Segmentation

In this paper, we propose an interval iteration multilevel thresholding method (IIMT). This approach is based on the Otsu method but iteratively searches for sub-regions of the image to achieve segmentation, rather than processing the full image as a whole region. Then, a novel multilevel thresholdi...

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Autores principales: Yuncong Feng, Wanru Liu, Xiaoli Zhang, Zhicheng Liu, Yunfei Liu, Guishen Wang
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Sumario:In this paper, we propose an interval iteration multilevel thresholding method (IIMT). This approach is based on the Otsu method but iteratively searches for sub-regions of the image to achieve segmentation, rather than processing the full image as a whole region. Then, a novel multilevel thresholding framework based on IIMT for brain MR image segmentation is proposed. In this framework, the original image is first decomposed using a hybrid <i>L</i><sub>1</sub> − <i>L</i><sub>0</sub> layer decomposition method to obtain the base layer. Second, we use IIMT to segment both the original image and its base layer. Finally, the two segmentation results are integrated by a fusion scheme to obtain a more refined and accurate segmentation result. Experimental results showed that our proposed algorithm is effective, and outperforms the standard Otsu-based and other optimization-based segmentation methods.