A data parallel algorithm for solving the region growing problem on the connection machine

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Region growing is a general technique for image segmentation, where image characteristics are used to group adjacent pixels together to form regions. This paper presents a parallel algorithm for solving the region growing problem based on the split-and-merge approach, and uses it to test and compare various parallel architectures and programming models. The implementations were done on the Connection Machine, models CM-2 and CM-5, in the data parallel and message passing programming models. Randomization was introduced in breaking ties during merging to increase the degree of parallelism, and only one- and two-dimensional arrays of data were used in the implementations. © 1994 Academic Press, Inc.

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Copty, N., Ranka, S., Fox, G., & Shankar, R. V. (1994). A data parallel algorithm for solving the region growing problem on the connection machine. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 21(1), 160–168. https://doi.org/10.1006/jpdc.1994.1049

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