Adaptive Pulse Coupled Neural Network Parameters for Image Segmentation

For over a decade, the Pulse Coupled Neural Network (PCNN) based algorithms have been successfully used in image interpretation applications including image segmentation. There are several versions of the PCNN based image segmentation methods, and the segmentation accuracy of all of them is very sensitive to the values of the network parameters. Most methods treat PCNN parameters like linking coefficient and primary firing threshold as global parameters, and determine them by trial-and-error. The automatic determination of appropriate values for linking coefficient, and primary firing threshold is a challenging problem and deserves further research. This paper presents a method for obtaining global as well as local values for the linking coefficient and the primary firing threshold for neurons directly from the image statistics. Extensive simulation results show that the proposed approach achieves excellent segmentation accuracy comparable to the best accuracy obtainable by trial-and-error for a variety of images.

Authors:

• Thejaswi H. Raya
• Vineetha Bettaiah
• Heggere S. Ranganath

Keywords:

• Automatic Selection of PCNN Parameters
• Image Segmentation
• Neural Networks
• Pulse Coupled Neural Network

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