Image segmentation via adaptive K-mean clustering and knowledge-based morphological operations with biomedical applications

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1673-1683

  Chen, Chang Wen ^a,b   Luo, Jiebo ^a,c   Parker, Kevin J ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

^d University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; Clustering; Gibbs random field; Image segmentation; K mean; Morphological operations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CARDIOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

IMAGE CLUSTERING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0032287848     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.730379     Document Type: Article

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