Unsupervised Tissue Classification in Medical Images using Edge-Adaptive Clustering

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 634-637

  Pham, Dzung L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge adaptive; Fuzzy clustering; Image segmentation; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

EDGE-ADAPTIVE CLUSTERING; FUZZY CLUSTERING; TISSUE CLASSIFICATION;

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TISSUE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 1542332636     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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