%0 Journal Article %T Image Segmentation and Region Growing Algorithm %A Shilpa Kamdi %A R.K.Krishna %J International Journal of Computer Technology and Electronics Engineering %D 2012 %I National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources %X -In areas such as computer vision and mage processing, image segmentation has been and still is a relevant research area due to its wide spread usage and application. This paper provides a survey of achievements, problems being encountered, and the open issues in the research area of image segmentation and usage of the techniques in different areas.. We considered the techniques under the following three groups: Threshold-based, Edge-based and Region-based. %K Image Segmentation %K Region Growing %U http://www.ijctee.org/files/VOLUME2ISSUE1/IJCTEE_0212_18.pdf