Segmentation of fat and muscle from MR images of the thigh by a possibilistic clustering algorithm

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 185-193

  Barra, Vincent ^a   Boire, Jean Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Body composition; Fuzzy clustering; MR imaging; Physical training

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MUSCLE;

FUZZY CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICINE; MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; THIGH; TRAINING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; FATS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THIGH;

EID: 0036278645     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2607(01)00172-9     Document Type: Article

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