Abstract
Accurate nuclear and cell segmentations plays an important role in
improving the accuracy of target recognition in microscopic cell images.
As the traditional SLIC (Simple Linear Iterative Clustering) algorithm
cannot segment microscopic cell images well, an improved SLIC superpixel
segmentation algorithm based on gray scale enhancement and regional
equalization is proposed. According to the characteristics of
microscopic cell images, selecting different transformation parameters
with the conditional iterative algorithm, the best classification
multi-threshold method based on maximum entropy criterion is used to
nonlinearly enhance the gray scale of the original images, while
enhancing the contrast of the image, it also greatly improves the
balance of each classification region. Then the gray distance and
spatial distance are calculated respectively in the circle neighborhood
of the cluster center to realize the superpixel segmentation of the
image. Finally, the improved SLIC algorithm and the comparison algorithm
are tested and evaluated. The experimental results show that our
improved SLIC algorithm model has higher segmentation accuracy and is
more suitable for cell segmentation in microscopic cell images than
original SLIC algorithm.