A New Medical Image Edge Detection Algorithm Based on BC-ACO

作者：Zhang, Jingyu; Teng, Jianfu; Bai, Yu^*

来源：International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 2017, 31(3): 1757002.

DOI：10.1142/S0218001417570026

• Medical image
• edge detection
• bacterial chemotaxis
• ant colony algorithm

Taking the improved ant colony algorithm based on bacterial chemotaxis as a means, this paper proposes one new swarm intelligence optimization algorithm to solve the medical image edge detection problem. The improved ant colony algorithm based on bacterial chemotaxis mainly aims at the shortcoming that the basic ant colony algorithm lacks initial pheromone, and combines bacterial chemotaxis algorithm with basic ant colony algorithm. Firstly, feasible better solution can be found through bacterial chemotaxis algorithm and fed back as initial pheromone. Then ant colony algorithm is implemented to search for the global optimal solution. The algorithm test indicates that the improved ant colony algorithm is more effective in the aspects of searching precision, reliability, optimization speed and stability compared with basic ant colony algorithm. Finally, the improved ant colony algorithm is applied into the edge detection of medical image. It can be seen from the computer simulation that compared with other operators and basic ant colony algorithm on the issue of solving medical image edge detection, the improved ant colony algorithm has superiority and the detected edge is clearer.

• 出版日期2017-3
• 单位天津大学