Balaji, T. K.1; Krishnaveni, K.2; Kenny, S. Pradeep Kumar3
A fuzzy optimal threshold technique for medical images
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Machine Vision (imcv 2011): Machine Vision, Image Processing, and Pattern Analysis
Affiliations
1 Velammal Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
2Sri.S.R.N.M College, Sattur, Tamil Nadu, India
3Infant Jesus Engineering College, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
Abstract
A new fuzzy based thresholding method for medical images especially cervical cytology images having blob and mosaic structures is proposed in this paper. Many existing thresholding algorithms may segment either blob or mosaic images but there aren't any single algorithm that can do both. In this paper, an input cervical cytology image is binarized, preprocessed and the pixel value with minimum Fuzzy Gaussian Index is identified as an optimal threshold value and used for segmentation. The proposed technique is tested on various cervical cytology images having blob or mosaic structures, compared with various existing algorithms and proved better than the existing algorithms.