Research Advances in Intelligent Computing

14Fusion-Based Morphological Watershed Segmentation Algorithm for Medical Images

Kavitha Kattigehalli Jayanna

GM Institute of Technology Davangere, India

Priestly B Shan

Chandigarh University Ajitgarh, Punjab, India

DOI: 10.1201/9781003320340-14

CONTENTS

• 14.1 Introduction

• 14.2 Morphological-Based Medical Image Segmentation

  • 14.2.1 Modulated Intensity Gradient (MIG) Analysis

  • 14.2.2 Texture Gradient (TeG) Analysis

• 14.3 Watershed Segmentation Algorithm

• 14.4 Results

• 14.5 Conclusion

• References

14.1 Introduction

Medical image watermarking (MIW) plays an important role in healthcare systems to ensure authenticity, integrity, confidentiality and security to electronic health record (EHR) which embodies the medical images (MIs) and related patient ...