Simple Image Thresholding
This method first estimates a cutoff, then calculates the distribution of pixels within the cutoff in order to determine the final threshold.
I have found this method to work quite well for fluorescence microscopy images in which most of the pixels are background and the background is approximately gaussian.
There are a couple parameters than can be used to tune the threshold.
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Jake Hughey (2026). Simple Image Thresholding (https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/44291-simple-image-thresholding), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
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Inspired by: Ridler-Calvard image thresholding
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