Research Article

Improving Minimum Cross-Entropy Thresholding for Segmentation of Infected Foregrounds in Medical Images Based on Mean Filters Approaches

Algorithm 2

MCET using different mean estimation approaches.
(1)Read input image (, )
(2)Compute the histogram h(i), i = 0, …., 255 for (, )
(3)for t = 2 : 254 do
(4)Compute the n(t) in equation (4) based on:
 Compute and using classical mean
 Compute and using lognormal mean
 Compute and using harmonic mean
 Compute and using geometric mean
 Compute and using contraharmonic mean
  Apply different input of Q (see Tables 1 and 2)
 Compute and using an alpha-trimmed mean
  Apply different input of trim (see Tables 1 and 2)
(5)Find the optimal that minimize n(t) for each mean estimation input
(6)End for
(7)Compute the average sum of the performance measure for each
(8)Find the best that maximizes the performance measure
(9)Return the best
(10)Output image