The Advantages and Disadvantages of Region Growing
We briefly conclude the advantages and disadvantages of region growing.
Advantages：
1. Region growing methods can correctly separate the regions that have the same properties we define.
2. Region growing methods can provide the original images which have clear edges with good segmentation results.
3. The concept is simple. We only need a small number of seed points to represent the property we want, then grow the region.
4. We can determine the seed points and the criteria we want to make.
5. We can choose the multiple criteria at the same time.
6. It performs well with respect to noise.
We can conquer the noise problem easily by using some mask to filter the holes or outlier. Therefore, the problem of noise actually does not exist. In conclusion, it is obvious that the most serious problem of region growing is the power and time consuming.
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