@Article{cmc.2019.06123,
AUTHOR = {Yanpeng  Wu, Xiaoqi  Peng, Mohammad  Nur, Hengfu  Yang},
TITLE = {A Method of Obtaining Catchment Basins with Contour Lines for Foam Image Segmentation},
JOURNAL = {Computers, Materials \& Continua},
VOLUME = {60},
YEAR = {2019},
NUMBER = {3},
PAGES = {1155--1170},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/cmc/v60n3/23086},
ISSN = {1546-2226},
ABSTRACT = {Foam image segmentation, represented by watershed algorithm, is wildly used in the extraction of bubble morphology features. H-minima transformation was proved to be effective in locating the catchment basins in the traditional watershed segmentation method. To further improve the accuracy of watershed segmentation, method of top-bottom-cap filters and method of morphological reconstruction were implied to marking the catchment basins. In this paper, instead of H-minima transformation, a method of contour lines is specially proposed to obtain the catchment basins for foam image segmentation by using top-bottom-cap filters and less morphological reconstruction. Experimental results in foam segmentation show that the proposed method is equally accurate but more efficient than the method of H-minima plus morphological reconstruction, and equally efficient but more accurate than the method of H-minima plus top-bottom-cap filters.},
DOI = {10.32604/cmc.2019.06123}
}