colloidal gold immunochromatographic strip

Accurate segmentation of test line and control line for colloidal gold immunochromatographic strip (GICS) images with image processing algorithms is essential to quantitative analysis of GICS. As common methods for GICS image segmentation, fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm and cellular neural network (CNN) algorithm both require presetting initial conditions (specifying initial parameters or training models) and take long running time, due to high calculation cost.