Research Article

Multilevel Thresholding for Image Segmentation Using Mean Gradient

Table 1

Comparison between the proposed global thresholding and Otsu’s method.

Proposed global thresholdingOtsu global thresholding

Threshold = 158Threshold = 143
PSNR = 56.5838PSNR = 56.7258
RMSE = 0.3779RMSE = 0.3718
Uniformity = 0.9826Uniformity = 0.9833

Threshold = 84Threshold = 93
PSNR = 59.2249PSNR = 58.8194
RMSE = 0.2788RMSE = 0.2921
Uniformity = 0.9576Uniformity = 0.9560

Threshold = 78Threshold = 126
PSNR = 59.0620PSNR = 59.2940
RMSE = 0.2841RMSE = 0.2766
Uniformity = 0.9865Uniformity = 0.9903

Threshold = 93Threshold = 127
PSNR = 57.0245PSNR = 56.9690
RMSE = 0.3592RMSE = 0.3615
Uniformity = 0.9815Uniformity = 0.9815