Everything about Thresholding (image processing)

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1. Read the overview: Thresholding (image processing)A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A comprehensive assessment of image processing variability in pore structural investigations: Conventional thresholding vs. machine learning approachesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Cartesian meditationsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Detection of Surface Crack in Building Structures Using Image Processing Technique with an Improved Otsu Method for Image ThresholdingCited 140 times
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Detection of Surface Crack in Building Structures Using Image Processing Technique with an Improved Otsu Method for Image Thresholding

  Nhat-Duc Hoang · 2018 · Advances in Civil Engineering · 140 citations

• Color image processing by using binary quaternion-moment-preserving thresholding technique

  Soo-Chang Pei, Ching-Min Cheng · 1999 · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 129 citations

• A Comprehensive Survey of Multi-Level Thresholding Segmentation Methods for Image Processing

  Mohammad Amiriebrahimabadi, Zhina Rouhi, Najme Mansouri · 2024 · Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering · 87 citations

• A potential crack region method to detect crack using image processing of multiple thresholding

  Cheng Chen, Hyungjoon Seo, ChangHyun Jun · 2022 · Signal, Image and Video Processing · 76 citations

• Image Processing-Based Pitting Corrosion Detection Using Metaheuristic Optimized Multilevel Image Thresholding and Machine-Learning Approaches

  Nhat-Duc Hoang · 2020 · Mathematical Problems in Engineering · 73 citations

• Image Denoising based on Enhanced Wavelet Global Thresholding Using Intelligent Signal Processing Algorithm

  Department of Physics, Federal University Lokoja, Lokoja 260101, Nigeria, Joseph Isabona, Agbotiname Lucky Imoize · 2023 · International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing · 6 citations

• Optimization of image processing methods based on wavelet transform and adaptive thresholding

  Xinrui Chen · 2023 · Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences · 2 citations

• IMPLEMENTATION OF CLAHE CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT & OTSU THRESHOLDING IN RETINAL IMAGE PROCESSING

  T M SOUJANYA, K PRASAD BABU · 2023 · international journal of engineering technology and management sciences · 2 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A comprehensive assessment of image processing variability in pore structural investigations: Conventional thresholding vs. machine learning approaches

  Xiangyun Shi, David Misch, Sanja Vranjes-Wessely · 2023 · Gas Science and Engineering · 42 citations

• Image Pre-Processing of USG Images by Adjusting Varying Luminance Trend and Applying Morphological Operations on Segmented Image using Thresholding

  Sampada Margaj · 2023 · International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) · 2 citations

• Sand Soil Image Processing Using the Watershed Transform and Otsu Thresholding Based on Gaussian Noise

  Golda Tomasila · 2022 · JINAV: Journal of Information and Visualization · 1 citations

• Detection of Cancer Cells Using Matlab Image Processing (Otsu's Thresholding)

  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, P.S.V.N. Bharath · 2025 · INTERANTIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT · 0 citations

• Bisection Method-Based Adaptive Thresholding for Robust Edge Detection in Image Processing

  · 2025 · Journal of Chemical Health Risks · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Cartesian meditationsEdmund Husserl, Dorion Cairns · 1960
• Medical image analysisAtam P. Dhawan · 2010
• Advances in Multimedia ModelingShipeng Li · 2012
• Treaty Occupationay ToxicologySuelen Queiroz · 2010
• Trends and Topics in Computer VisionKiriakos N. Kutulakos · 2012
• Fundamentals of HearingWilliam A. Yost · 2000
• The SlavsRoger Portal · 1969
• The new stereo soundbookF. Alton Everest · 1992

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