Research Article

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

Table 2

Average evaluation values of supervised performance measurement using the proposed mean estimation techniques compared with the classical mean or Gaussian distribution for MCET.

EstimationSkin lesionMRI Brain

1Classical mean0.89230.8210
2Lognormal [6]0.89660.8349
3Harmonic0.89030.8323
4Geometric0.85930.8233

5ContraharmonicQ = −3.00.88300.8513
6Q = −1.00.89030.8313
7Q = −0.50.89380.8475
8Q = 0.00.89230.8240
9Q = 0.10.88750.8421

10Alpha trimd/2 = 10.00.89570.8670
11d/2 = 20.00.90600.8922
12d/2 = 30.00.90590.9160
13d/2 = 40.00.90930.8988
14d/2 = 50.00.91020.8860
15d/2 = 55.00.92080.8839
16d/2 = 60.00.90970.8772
17d/2 = 65.00.90130.8781
18d/2 = 70.00.88490.8771
29d/2 = 80.00.87470.8412
20d/2 = 90.00.87460.8077
21d/2 = 1000.86690.7974
22d/2 = 1100.85070.7936