Two-stage neural network for volume segmentation of medical images

IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks - Conference Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 1997, Pages 1373-1378

  Ahmed, M N ^a   Farag, A A ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning in Vision; Pattern Analysis; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; CONNECTED COMPONENT LABELING ALGORITHM; MODEL-FITTING APPROACH; NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEMS; PATTERN ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; SELF-ORGANIZING FEATURE MAP; UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER VISION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

SELF ORGANIZING FEATURE MAP (SOFM); SELF ORGANIZING PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS (SOPCA) NETWORK;

EID: 0030691679     PISSN: 10987576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNN.1997.613994     Document Type: Conference Paper

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