An efficient Harris hawks-inspired image segmentation method

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Highlights：

• An efficient method for image thresholding is proposed.

• The Harris hawk optimizer is used for image segmentation.

• The Harris hawk optimizer is tested over a multidimensional real problem.

• The quality of the segmentation results is higher than other algorithms.

• The performance of the algorithm is tested on digital mammograms.

摘要

•An efficient method for image thresholding is proposed.•The Harris hawk optimizer is used for image segmentation.•The Harris hawk optimizer is tested over a multidimensional real problem.•The quality of the segmentation results is higher than other algorithms.•The performance of the algorithm is tested on digital mammograms.

论文关键词：Multilevel thresholding,Digital mammograms,Harris hawks optimization,Metaheuristics,Minimum cross entropy

论文评审过程：Received 13 October 2019, Revised 9 March 2020, Accepted 1 April 2020, Available online 7 April 2020, Version of Record 28 April 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113428