A contextual-constraint based Hopfield neural cube for medical image segmentation

IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference, Proceedings/TENCON

Volumn 2, Issue , 1999, Pages 1170-1173

  Chang, Chuan Yu ^a   Chung, Pau Choo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIXELS;

COMPETITIVE LEARNING; CONTEXTUAL CONSTRAINTS; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; ENERGY FUNCTIONS; HARD CONSTRAINTS; HIGH-LEVEL VISIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION MODEL; NETWORK OPERATIONS;

HOPFIELD NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 11244327951     PISSN: 21593442     EISSN: 21593450     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TENCON.1999.818634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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