# Image Trinarization Using a Partial Differential Equations: A Novel Approach to Automatic Sperm Image Analysis

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11927 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.11927/

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- First posted on arXiv 24 May 2022.

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- [Genetic Neural Architecture Search for automatic assessment of human sperm images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.09432/) (2019)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Partial differential equations have recently garnered substantial attention as an image processing framework due to their extensibility, the ability to rigorously engineer and analyse the governing dynamics as well as the ease of implementation using numerical methods. This paper explores a novel approach to image trinarization with a concrete real-world application of classifying regions of sperm images used in the automatic analysis of sperm morphology. The proposed methodology engineers a diffusion equation with non-linear source term, exhibiting three steady-states. The model is implemented as an image processor using a standard finite difference method to illustrate the efficacy of the proposed approach. The performance of the proposed approach is benchmarked against standard image clustering/segmentation methods and shown to be highly effective.