Authors:
António dos Anjos
and
Hamid Reza Shahbazkia
Affiliation:
Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Algarve, DEEI, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Bioinformatics, Medical image processing, Image thresholding.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Services
;
Bioinformatics
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Signal Processing
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Medical Image Detection, Acquisition, Analysis and Processing
Abstract:
Images with two dominant intensity levels are easily manually thresholded. For automatic image thresholding, most of the effective techniques are either too complex or too eager of computer resources. In this paper we present an iterative method for image thresholding that is simple, fast, effective and that requires minimal computer processing power. Images of micro and macroarray of genes have characteristics that allow the use of the presented method for thresholding.