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Improvements on Moment-Preserving Method for Image Thresholding

Rami M. Jomaa Ali El-Zaart Hassan Mathkour

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Abstract Thresholding is one of the most known image

segmentation technique. Its simplicity and effeteness in
finding an optimal threshold value give better segmentation
quality. Moment-preserving thresholding proposed by
Tsai is one of the most popular thresholding techniques.
In this paper, we propose some improvements to Tsais
method by using the first derivative to get the threshold and
by
introducing
Log-Normal
distribution
to
moment-preserving thresholding, which enhances
thresholding result in case of symmetric and positively
skewed histogram modes.
Keywords Segmentation Thresholding Moment
-Preserving Log-Normal distribution.

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Rami M. Jomaa Ali El-Zaart Hassan Mathkour

College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
E-mail: rami@ksu.edu.sa, dr_elzaart@yahoo.com,
mathkour@ksu.edu.sa

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