A Unique Relative Entropy-Based Symmetrical Co-occurrence Matrix Thresholding with Statistical Spatial Information

Thresholding based on gray-gray cooccurrence matrix is a local thresholding technique. Relative entropy is usually used to gauge the relative difference of uncertainties in two physical systems, and the relative entropy-based asymmetrical co-occurrence matrix thresholding has been applied successfully. We propose to construct symmetrical co-occurrence matrix with the statistical spatial information from the mean values in object and background regions of an image. In this way, a unique relative entropy-based symmetrical co-occurrence matrix thresholding method is derived. Computer-simulation results demonstrated the higher adaptability and efficiency of the proposed method, as compared with square distance based symmetrical co-ocurrence matrix thresholding, Otsu's and relative entropy methods.