abstract = "Image segmentation is an essential process in many
image analysis applications and is mainly used for
automatic object recognition purposes. In this paper,
we define a new genetic programming based image
segmentation algorithm (GPIS). It uses a primitive
image-operator based approach to produce linear
sequences of MATLAB code for image segmentation. We
describe the evolutionary architecture of the approach
and present results obtained after testing the
algorithm on a biomedical image database for cell
segmentation. We also compare our results with another
EC-based image segmentation tool called GENIE Pro. We
found the results obtained using GPIS were more
accurate as compared to GENIE Pro. In addition, our
approach is simpler to apply and evolved programs are
available to anyone with access to MATLAB",
notes = "GECCO-2009 A joint meeting of the eighteenth
international conference on genetic algorithms
(ICGA-2009) and the fourteenth annual genetic
programming conference (GP-2009).