An integrated method of adaptive enhancement for unsupervised segmentation of MRI brain images

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2549-2560

  Xue, Jing Hao ^a   Pizurica, Aleksandra ^a   Philips, Wilfried ^a   Kerre, Etienne ^a   Van De Walle, Rik ^a   Lemahieu, Ignace ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adaptive enhancement; Brain tissues; MRI; Unsupervised segmentation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TISSUE;

NOISY IMAGES;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0042377407     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(03)00100-4     Document Type: Article

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