A comprehensive survey: artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm and applications

D Karaboga, B Gorkemli, C Ozturk… - Artificial intelligence …, 2014 - Springer
Swarm intelligence (SI) is briefly defined as the collective behaviour of decentralized and
self-organized swarms. The well known examples for these swarms are bird flocks, fish …

Image segmentation using multilevel thresholding: a research review

S Pare, A Kumar, GK Singh, V Bajaj - Iranian Journal of Science and …, 2020 - Springer
Image segmentation is a basic problem in computer vision and various image processing
applications. Over the years, commonly used image segmentation has become quite …

Ant colony optimization with horizontal and vertical crossover search: Fundamental visions for multi-threshold image segmentation

D Zhao, L Liu, F Yu, AA Heidari, M Wang… - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
The ant colony optimization (ACO) is the most exceptionally fundamental swarm-based
solver for realizing discrete problems. In order to make it also suitable for solving continuous …

[HTML][HTML] Improved prediction of slope stability using a hybrid stacking ensemble method based on finite element analysis and field data

N Kardani, A Zhou, M Nazem, SL Shen - Journal of Rock Mechanics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Slope failures lead to catastrophic consequences in numerous countries and thus the
stability assessment for slopes is of high interest in geotechnical and geological engineering …

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 …

Multilevel threshold image segmentation with diffusion association slime mould algorithm and Renyi's entropy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

S Zhao, P Wang, AA Heidari, H Chen… - Computers in Biology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Image segmentation is an essential pre-processing step and is an indispensable part of
image analysis. This paper proposes Renyi's entropy multi-threshold image segmentation …

Performance optimization of differential evolution with slime mould algorithm for multilevel breast cancer image segmentation

L Liu, D Zhao, F Yu, AA Heidari, J Ru, H Chen… - Computers in Biology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is one of the most dangerous diseases for women's health, and it is imperative
to provide the necessary diagnostic assistance for it. The medical image processing …

A hybrid approach of differential evolution and artificial bee colony for feature selection

E Zorarpacı, SA Özel - Expert Systems with Applications, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract “Dimensionality” is one of the major problems which affect the quality of learning
process in most of the machine learning and data mining tasks. Having high dimensional …

Cuckoo search algorithm and wind driven optimization based study of satellite image segmentation for multilevel thresholding using Kapur's entropy

AK Bhandari, VK Singh, A Kumar, GK Singh - Expert Systems with …, 2014 - Elsevier
The objective of image segmentation is to extract meaningful objects. A meaningful
segmentation selects the proper threshold values to optimize a criterion using entropy. The …

Entropy based segmentation of tumor from brain MR images–a study with teaching learning based optimization

V Rajinikanth, SC Satapathy, SL Fernandes… - Pattern Recognition …, 2017 - Elsevier
Image processing plays an important role in various medical applications to support the
computerized disease examination. Brain tumor, such as glioma is one of the life threatening …