Automated extraction of the endorrhachis from MR lumbar images by fuzzy inference techniques

Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 1620-1625

  Terao, Michiharu ^a   Kobashi, Syoji ^a   Hata, Yutaka ^a   Tanaka, Masamichi ^b   Tokimoto, Yasuhiro ^c   Ishikawa, Osamu ^c   Ishikawa, Makoto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^b HIMEJI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Ishikawa Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

AUTOMATED EXTRACTION; FUZZY INFERENCE TECHNIQUE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE LUMBAR IMAGES; THREE DIMENSIONAL ENDORRACHIS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0035792664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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