Representation and fusion of heterogeneous fuzzy information in the 3D space for model-based structural recognition - Application to 3D brain imaging

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 141-175

  Bloch, Isabelle ^a   Géraud, Thierry ^a,b   Maître, Henri ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b EPITA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABORATORY LRDE   (France)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Fuzzy classification; Fuzzy fusion; Fuzzy mathematical morphology; Fuzzy pattern recognition; Fuzzy spatial relationships; Heterogeneous knowledge representation; Model based structural recognition

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

FUZZY FUSION;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0043131827     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0004-3702(03)00018-3     Document Type: Article

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