Image segmentation Techniques

Abstract

A wide variety of techniques are used for image segmentation [29, 35, 36, 55]. They include edge detection [20], region splitting [49, 50, 53], region merging [36, 55], clustering [19, 46], surface fitting [55], rule-based expert systems [47], relaxation [4, 6, 8, 9, 55], and integrated techniques [27, 35, 39, 55]. In this chapter, we first briefly discuss techniques based on edge detection, and region splitting and region growing, and then present the details of the Phoenix image segmentation algorithm [41, 61] that has been used in this research.