Unsupervised MRI segmentation with spatial connectivity

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4684 III, Issue , 2002, Pages 1742-1750

  Khalighi, Mohammad Mehdi ^a   Soltanian Zadeh, Hamid ^a   Lucas, Caro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fuzzy c means; MRI; Spatial connectivity; Unsupervised segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MARKOV PROCESSES;

MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS (MRF);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036028355     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.467147     Document Type: Conference Paper

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