Two channels fuzzy C-means detection of multiple sclerosis lesions in multispectral MR images

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Ardizzone, E ^a   Pirrone, R ^a   Gambino, O ^a   Peri, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; BRAIN; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TISSUE;

FUZZY C-MEANS DETECTION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MULTISPECTRAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0036447876     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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