Title :
N-cuts parameter adjustment using evolving fuzzy inferencing
Author :
Othman, Ahmed A. ; Tizhoosh, Hamid R.
Author_Institution :
Syst. Design Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Abstract :
Normalized cut (N-cut) is a rather recent approach to image segmentation representing the image as a graph and using eigenvalues to partition it. However, this method has several parameters that affect the segmentation accuracy. Using pre-set values for these parameters may generate good results for some images and bad results for others. Thus, to achieve maximum segmentation accuracy, these parameters may be manually finetuned for every set of images. This process, of course, would be impractical and lack generality. In this paper, a method is proposed to automatically determine N-cut parameters for every single image based on the image features using evolving fuzzy sets. The proposed method is applied to magnetic reasoning images (MRI) of bladder.
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; fuzzy set theory; graph theory; image representation; image segmentation; inference mechanisms; medical image processing; MRI; N-cuts parameter adjustment; bladder; eigenvalues; evolving fuzzy inferencing; fuzzy sets; graph theory; image features; image segmentation representation; magnetic reasonance images; Accuracy; Feature extraction; Fuzzy systems; Image segmentation; Indexes; Standards; Training;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hyderabad
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0020-6
DOI :
10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2013.6622480