A Relative Study on Image Segmentation Methods

Image segmentation is the building block to image analysis and detailed data extraction from them. The problems of digital image segmentation offers various challenges to researchers in this field. This paper tries to explain the principles of some basic methods used to segment an image. This paper discuss the trend of each algorithm with their applications, advantages and disadvantages. This study is helpful for appropriate use of existing segmentation methods and for improving their performance as well as for systematically designing new methods.