IMPROVED ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONY ALGORITHM AND ITS APPLICATION TO FUNDUS RETINAL BLOOD VESSEL IMAGE BINARIZATION

Improved Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm and Its Application to Fundus Retinal Blood Vessel Image Binarization

The content of this work is based on the characteristics of standard artificial bee colony(ABC) algorithm with weak local search ability and slow convergence speed.Then, an improved algorithm named KD-ABC is proposed.For improving the diversity and quality of the solution, it changes the generation method of honey source.In the initialization phase

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Prevalence and Antibiotic Susceptibility Profile of Staphylococcus aureus in Commercialized Food in Oran, Algeria

Background: With regard to health-threatening infections, Staphylococcus aureus is the leading cause of polymorphic infections varying from a banal tegumentary infection to numerous lethal illnesses.Furthermore, it is the third commonest bacterial cause of food-borne infections worldwide.This study aimed to investigate contamination, prevalence, an

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Family and marital affairs in 19th century Serbia

Ethnology, as a science, continues to dedicate very much attention to the traditional culture of Serbian 19th century villages.In the past, material culture with all of the disappearing, relic artifacts no longer in use was in the focus of the science.A large amount of data was gathered, on the population origins, migrations, beliefs, rituals, soci

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