Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51052#.VFL-WGfHRK0 Author(s) Celia A. Z. Barcelos 1 , Yunmei Chen 2 , Fuhua Chen 3 Affiliation(s) 1 Faculty of Mathematics, Federal University of Uberlandia, Uberlandia, MG, Brazil . 2 Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA . 3 Department of Natural Science & Mathematics, West Liberty University, West Liberty, WV, USA . ABSTRACT In this paper, we propose a new soft multi-phase segmentation model where it is assumed that the pixel intensities are distributed as a Gaussian mixture. The model is formulated as a minimization problem through the use of the maximum likelihood estimator and phase-tran...
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