EDGE DETECTION OF MICROSCOPIC IMAGE

Edge detection of herbal plants is a set of mathematical methods which aim at identifying points in a digital image at which the image brightness changes sharply and has discontinuities. They are defined as the set of curved line segments termed edges. Effective edge detection for microscopic image of herbal plant is proposed through this paper which compares the edge detected images and then performs further segmentation. Comparison between Sobel operator, Prewitt, Canny and Robert cross operators is performed. Our method after efficient edge detection performs Gabor filter and K-means clustering to procure a better image. It is then subjected to further segmentation. Experimental methods in our proposed algorithm show that our method achieves a better edge detection as compared to other edge detector operators. Our proposed algorithm provides the maximum PSNR value of 43.684 amongst the other commercial edge detection operators.