An improved marine predators algorithm with fuzzy entropy for multi-level thresholding: real world example of COVID-19 CT image segmentation

M Abd Elaziz, AA Ewees, D Yousri, HSN Alwerfali… - Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Medical imaging techniques play a critical role in diagnosing diseases and patient
healthcare. They help in treatment, diagnosis, and early detection. Image segmentation is …

A novel evolutionary arithmetic optimization algorithm for multilevel thresholding segmentation of covid-19 ct images

L Abualigah, A Diabat, P Sumari, AH Gandomi - Processes, 2021 - mdpi.com
One of the most crucial aspects of image segmentation is multilevel thresholding. However,
multilevel thresholding becomes increasingly more computationally complex as the number …

Improved manta ray foraging optimization for multi-level thresholding using COVID-19 CT images

EH Houssein, MM Emam, AA Ali - Neural Computing and Applications, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is pervasive worldwide, posing a high risk to
people's safety and health. Many algorithms were developed to identify COVID-19. One way …

Modified particle swarm optimization-based multilevel thresholding for image segmentation

Y Liu, C Mu, W Kou, J Liu - Soft computing, 2015 - Springer
Since the conventional multilevel thresholding approaches exhaustively search the optimal
thresholds to optimize objective functions, they are computational expensive. In this paper …

Boosting marine predators algorithm by salp swarm algorithm for multilevel thresholding image segmentation

L Abualigah, NK Al-Okbi, MA Elaziz… - Multimedia tools and …, 2022 - Springer
Pixel rating is considered one of the commonly used critical factors in digital image
processing that depends on intensity. It is used to determine the optimal image …

An efficient multi-thresholding based COVID-19 CT images segmentation approach using an improved equilibrium optimizer

EH Houssein, BE Helmy, D Oliva, P Jangir… - … Signal Processing and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Optimization is the process of searching for the optimal (best-so-far) solution among a wide
range of solutions. Besides, in the last two decades, a family of algorithms known as …

An efficient multilevel image thresholding method based on improved heap-based optimizer

EH Houssein, GM Mohamed, IA Ibrahim… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Image segmentation is the process of separating pixels of an image into multiple classes,
enabling the analysis of objects in the image. Multilevel thresholding (MTH) is a method …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced slime mould algorithm for multilevel thresholding image segmentation using entropy measures

S Lin, H Jia, L Abualigah, M Altalhi - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Image segmentation is a fundamental but essential step in image processing because it
dramatically influences posterior image analysis. Multilevel thresholding image …

[HTML][HTML] A differential evolutionary adaptive Harris hawks optimization for two dimensional practical Masi entropy-based multilevel image thresholding

A Wunnava, MK Naik, R Panda, B Jena… - Journal of King Saud …, 2022 - Elsevier
The prey gets completely exhausted in Harris hawks optimization (HHO), when the escape
energy is zero. Its exploration ability is limited. The random operator selected in HHO is a …

Whale optimization algorithm and moth-flame optimization for multilevel thresholding image segmentation

M Abd El Aziz, AA Ewees, AE Hassanien - Expert Systems with Applications, 2017 - Elsevier
Determining the optimal thresholding for image segmentation has got more attention in
recent years since it has many applications. There are several methods used to find the …