Fuzzy Image Segmentation For Lung Nodule Detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5200, Issue , 2003, Pages 232-239

  Shen, Yue ^a   Sankar, Ravi ^b   Qian, Wei ^c   Sun, Xuejun ^c   Song, Dansheng ^c  

^a MiraMedica Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive fuzzy C means clustering; Fuzzy C means clustering; Fuzzy Entropy; Fuzzy image segmentation; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

FUZZY ENTROPY; FUZZY IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LUNG NODULES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; ENTROPY; ITERATIVE METHODS; PULMONARY DISEASES; TUMORS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 1842425937     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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