Automatic brain tumor extraction using fuzzy information fusion

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4875, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 604-609

  Dou, Weibei ^a   Liao, Qingmin ^a   Ruan, Su ^b   Bloyet, Daniel ^b   Constans, Jean Mac ^c   Chen, Yanping ^d  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d FIRST MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fuzzy; Information fusion; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Tumor

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; FUZZY SETS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; RADIOLOGY; TUMORS;

BRAIN TUMOR EXTRACTION; FUZZY INFORMATION FUSION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0036452331     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.477203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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