A Beginner's Guide to Multilevel Image Thresholding
暫譯: 多層次影像閾值設定入門指南

《初學者的影像多層閾值處理指南》強調了影像預處理和初步層級增強所需的各種影像閾值處理方法。

- 解釋影像多層閾值處理的基本概念及其實作（灰階和RGB影像）
- 提供實時應用的詳細評估，包括啟發式演算法的需求、目標和閾值函數的選擇，以及結果的評估
- 描述影像閾值處理如何作為預處理技術，以及如何利用閾值處理增強醫學影像中的關注區域
- 說明閾值處理技術與生物啟發演算法的整合
- 包含影像多層閾值處理的最新研究成果和未來方向及其實際應用
- 強調多層閾值處理的必要性並提供適當的範例

本書針對影像處理、電子工程、計算機科學及工程的研究生和研究人員。

Venkatesan Rajinikanth is a Professor in Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering at St. Joseph's College of Engineering, Chennai 600119, Tamilnadu, India. Recently he edited a book titled 'Advances in Artificial Intelligence Systems', Nova Science publisher, USA. He has published more than 75 papers. His h-index is 22 with more than 1200 citations. He is the Associate Editor of Int. J. of Rough Sets and Data Analysis (IGI Global, US, DBLP, ACM dl) and Editing/Edited Special Issues in journals; Current Signal Transduction Therapy, Current Medical Imaging Reviews and International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research.His main research interests include Medical Imaging, Machine learning, and Computer Aided Diagnosis as well as Data Mining. Research Gate: https: //www.researchgate.net/profile/Venkatesan_Rajinikanth Orcid: https: //orcid.org/0000-0003-3897-4460 N. Sri Madhava Raja is passionate towards teaching and has 16 years of experience at Engineering Colleges. Currently he is serving St. Joseph's College of Engineering, Chennai, India as an Associate Professor. He had earned his doctorate in the area of biomedical engineering in 2014. He has completed his post graduation in Process Control and Instrumentation in 2002. His under graduation was secured in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2001. He is also a ardent researcher and his major areas of research are medical image processing, optimisation algorithms, heuristic algorithms and biomechanics. His 50+ research works have been published in renowned journals and conference proceedings. He has also contributed a couple of chapters to books which are related to optimisation techniques. Research Gate: https: //www.researchgate.net/profile/N_Raja2 Google Scholar: https: //scholar.google.com/citations?user=Lpxxye8AAAAJ&hl=en Nilanjan Dey is an Assistant Professor in Department of Information Technology at Techno India College of Technology (under Techno India Group), Kolkata, India. He is a visiting fellow of University of Reading, London, UK and visiting Professor of Duy Tan University, Vietnam. He was an honorary Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012-2015). He is a Research Scientist of Laboratory of Applied Mathematical Modeling in Human Physiology, Territorial Organization of- Scientific and Engineering Unions, Bulgaria. Associate Researcher of Laboratoire RIADI, University of Manouba, Tunisia. He is a Scientific Member of - Politécnica of Porto. He was awarded his PhD. from Jadavpur University in 2015. In addition, recently he was awarded as one among the top 10 most published academics in the field of Computer Science in India (2015-17) during 'Faculty Research Awards' organized by Careers 360 at New Delhi, India. Before he joined Techno India, he was Assistant Professor of JISCollege of Engineering and Bengal College of Engineering and Technology. He has authored/edited more than 60 books with Elsevier, Wiley, CRC Press and Springer, and published more than 300 papers. His h-index is 35 with more than 5500 citations. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Int. J. of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI, IGI Global, US [Q2]. He is the Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing (STNIC), Springer, Series Co-Editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare (AUSAH), Elsevier, Series Editor of Computational Intelligence in Engineering Problem Solving and Intelligent Signal processing and data analysis, CRC Press (FOCUS/Brief Series) and Advances in Geospatial Technologies (AGT) Book Series, (IGI Global), US, serves as an editorial board member of several international journals, including International Journal of Image Mining (IJIM), Inderscience, Associated Editor of IEEE Access (SCI-Indexed), and International Journal of Information Technology, Springer. His main research interests include Medical Imaging, Machine learning, Computer Aided Diagnosis as well as Data Mining. He has been on program committees of over 100 international conferences, a workshop organizer of 15 workshops, and acted as a program co-chair and/or advisory chair of more than 55 international conferences. He has given more than 60 invited lectures in 10 countries, including many invited plenary/keynote talks at the international conferences such as ITITS2017; ITITS2018 (China), TIMEC2017 (Egypt) and BioCom2018 (UK) etc. Research Gate: https: //www.researchgate.net/profile/Nilanjan_Dey3 Google Scholar: https: //scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=uZmrRHAAAAAJ&hl=en Amazon Profile: https: //www.amazon.com/Nilanjan-Dey/e/B01MSMZDF1?

Venkatesan Rajinikanth 是印度泰米爾納德邦金奈聖約瑟夫工程學院電子與儀器工程系的教授。他最近編輯了一本名為《人工智慧系統的進展》的書籍，由美國 Nova Science 出版社出版。他已發表超過 75 篇論文，h-index 為 22，引用次數超過 1200 次。他是《國際粗集與數據分析期刊》（Int. J. of Rough Sets and Data Analysis，IGI Global，美國，DBLP，ACM dl）的副編輯，並在《當前信號轉導療法》、《當前醫學影像評論》和《國際群體智慧研究期刊》上編輯特刊。他的主要研究興趣包括醫學影像、機器學習、計算機輔助診斷以及數據挖掘。Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Venkatesan_Rajinikanth Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3897-4460

N. Sri Madhava Raja 對教學充滿熱情，擁有 16 年的工程學院教學經驗。目前他在印度金奈的聖約瑟夫工程學院擔任副教授。他於 2014 年獲得生物醫學工程領域的博士學位，並於 2002 年完成過程控制與儀器的碩士學位，2001 年獲得電氣與電子工程的學士學位。他也是一位熱衷的研究者，主要研究領域包括醫學影像處理、優化演算法、啟發式演算法和生物力學。他的 50 多篇研究作品已發表在知名期刊和會議論文集中。他還為與優化技術相關的書籍貢獻了幾章。Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/N_Raja2 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Lpxxye8AAAAJ&hl=en

Nilanjan Dey 是印度加爾各答 Techno India College of Technology 資訊技術系的助理教授。他是英國倫敦雷丁大學的訪問研究員，以及越南 Duy Tan 大學的訪問教授。他曾擔任美國加州 Global Biomedical Technologies Inc. 的榮譽訪問科學家（2012-2015）。他是保加利亞科學與工程聯盟的應用數學建模在人體生理學實驗室的研究科學家，並且是突尼西亞 Manouba 大學 Laboratoire RIADI 的副研究員。他是波爾圖理工學院的科學成員。他於 2015 年在 Jadavpur 大學獲得博士學位。此外，他最近在 2015-2017 年期間被評選為印度計算機科學領域發表論文最多的前 10 位學者之一，該獎項由 Careers 360 在印度新德里舉辦的「教職員研究獎」頒發。在加入 Techno India 之前，他曾擔任 JIS College of Engineering 和 Bengal College of Engineering and Technology 的助理教授。他與 Elsevier、Wiley、CRC Press 和 Springer 合著/編輯了超過 60 本書籍，並發表了超過 300 篇論文。他的 h-index 為 35，引用次數超過 5500 次。他是《國際環境計算與智慧期刊》（Int. J. of Ambient Computing and Intelligence，IJACI，IGI Global，美國 [Q2]）的主編。他是 Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing (STNIC) 系列的共同編輯，Elsevier 的 Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare (AUSAH) 系列的共同編輯，CRC Press 的 Computational Intelligence in Engineering Problem Solving and Intelligent Signal Processing and Data Analysis (FOCUS/Brief Series) 系列編輯，以及 Advances in Geospatial Technologies (AGT) 書系列的編輯（IGI Global，美國），並擔任多個國際期刊的編輯委員會成員，包括《國際影像挖掘期刊》（IJIM）、Inderscience、《IEEE Access》（SCI 索引）和《國際資訊技術期刊》（Springer）。他的主要研究興趣包括醫學影像、機器學習、計算機輔助診斷以及數據挖掘。他曾參與超過 100 個國際會議的程序委員會，組織 15 個研討會，並擔任超過 55 個國際會議的程序共同主席和/或顧問主席。他在 10 個國家發表了超過 60 場受邀演講，包括在 ITITS2017、ITITS2018（中國）、TIMEC2017（埃及）和 BioCom2018（英國）等國際會議上的多場受邀全體會議/主題演講。Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nilanjan_Dey3 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=uZmrRHAAAAAJ&hl=en Amazon Profile: https://www.amazon.com/Nilanjan-Dey/e/B01MSMZDF1