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Designing a new software tool for Digital Imagery based on P systems

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In this paper we present a new software tool for dealing with the problem of segmentation in Digital Imagery. The implementation is inspired in the design of a tissue-like P system which solves the problem in constant time due the intrinsic parallelism of Membrane Computing devices.

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  1. An introduction on Natural Computing can be found in Kari and Rozenberg (2008).

  2. We refer to Păun (2002) for basic information in this area, to Păun (2010) for a comprehensive presentation and the web site P system web page for the up-to-date information.

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DDP and MAGN acknowledge the support of the projects TIN2008-04487-E and TIN-2009-13192 of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación of Spain and the support of the Project of Excellence with Investigador de Reconocida Valía of the Junta de Andalucía, grant P08-TIC-04200. PR and HMA acknowledge the support of the project MTM2009-12716 of the Ministerio español de Educación y Ciencia, the project PO6-TIC-02268 of Excellence of Junta de Andalucía, and the “Computational Topology and Applied Mathematics” PAICYT research group FQM-296.

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    Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo

  2. Research Group on Computational Topology and Applied Mathematics, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

    Daniel Díaz-Pernil, Helena Molina-Abril & Pedro Real

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Díaz-Pernil, D., Gutiérrez-Naranjo, M.A., Molina-Abril, H. et al. Designing a new software tool for Digital Imagery based on P systems. Nat Comput 11, 381–386 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11047-011-9287-4

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