L. [. Haralick and . Shapiro, Survey: Image segmentation techniques, Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, pp.100-132, 1985.

T. Quiger, P. Michc, and R. Debrie, Segmentation by autoadaptative thresholding, Proceedings of the 6th Int. Conf on Image Analysis and Processing Progress in Image Analysis and Processing 11, pp.34-42, 1991.

J. Canny, A computational approach to edge detection, IEEE trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.8, issue.6, pp.679-698, 1986.

R. Deriche and S. W. Zucker, Separable recursive filtering for efficient multiscale edge detection Survey: Region growing: Childhood and adolescence, Int. Workshop on Machine Vision & Machine Intelligence, pp.382-399, 1976.

Y. Chang and X. Li, Fast image region growing, Image and Vision Computing, vol.13, issue.7, pp.559-571, 1995.
DOI : 10.1016/0262-8856(95)91146-5

J. Benois and D. Barba, Image segmentation by regioncontour cooperation for image coding, Proc. l l t h Int. Con. on Pattern recognition (ICPR92), pp.331-334, 1992.
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01441610

.. C. Gambottolo-]-s, A. Zhu, and . Yuille, A new approach to combining region growing and edge detection Pattern Recognition Letters Region competition : Unifying snakes, region growing, and bayes/MDL for multiband image segmentation, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, pp.884-900, 1993.

S. Dugelay, C. Graffigne, and J. Augustin, Segmentation of multibeam acoustic imagery in the exploration of the deep sea-bottom, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp.4-7, 1996.
DOI : 10.1109/ICPR.1996.546864

R. Watzel, K. Braun, A. Hess, W. Zuschratter, and H. Scheich, Restoration of dendrites and spines with the objective of topologically correct segmentation, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp.472-476, 1996.
DOI : 10.1109/ICPR.1996.546870

W. G. Kropatsch and S. B. Yacoub, A revision of pyramid segmentation, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp.477-481, 1996.
DOI : 10.1109/ICPR.1996.546871

C. Fiorio and J. Gustedt, Two linear time Union-Find strategies for image processing, Theoretical Computer Science, vol.154, issue.2, pp.165-181, 1996.
DOI : 10.1016/0304-3975(94)00262-2
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/inria-00549539

K. Mehlhom, M. B. Dillencourt, H. Samet, and M. Tamminen, Data Structures and Algorithms I : Sorting and Searching A general approach to connected-component labeling for arbitrary image representation, J. of the Association for Computing Machinery, vol.39, pp.253-280, 1161.

W. Hoeffding, Probability inequalities for sums of bounded random variables, J. Am. Stat. Assoc, pp.13-30, 1963.