4.6 Article

Multi-Level Image Thresholding Based on Modified Spherical Search Optimizer and Fuzzy Entropy

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ENTROPY
Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/e22030328

Keywords

image segmentation; multi-level thresholding; spherical search optimizer (SSO); sine cosine algorithm (SCA); fuzzy entropy; metaheuristics

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  1. Science and Technology Program of Shenzhen of China [Nos.JCYJ20180306124612893, JCYJ20170818160208570]

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Multi-level thresholding is one of the effective segmentation methods that have been applied in many applications. Traditional methods face challenges in determining the suitable threshold values; therefore, metaheuristic (MH) methods have been adopted to solve these challenges. In general, MH methods had been proposed by simulating natural behaviors of swarm ecosystems, such as birds, animals, and others. The current study proposes an alternative multi-level thresholding method based on a new MH method, a modified spherical search optimizer (SSO). This was performed by using the operators of the sine cosine algorithm (SCA) to enhance the exploitation ability of the SSO. Moreover, Fuzzy entropy is applied as the main fitness function to evaluate the quality of each solution inside the population of the proposed SSOSCA since Fuzzy entropy has established its performance in literature. Several images from the well-known Berkeley dataset were used to test and evaluate the proposed method. The evaluation outcomes approved that SSOSCA showed better performance than several existing methods according to different image segmentation measures.

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