Neural network and fuzzy clustering approach for automatic diagnosis of coronary artery disease in nuclear medicine

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 184-192

  Bagher Ebadian, Hassan ^a,b   Soltanian Zadeh, Hamid ^b,c   Setayeshi, Saeed ^a   Smith, Stephen T ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Feature extraction; Fuzzy clustering; Image processing; Leave one out; Neural network; Nuclear medicine; PIWRH; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASES; FUZZY CLUSTERING; LEAVE-ONE-OUT; PIWRH; SPECT;

NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

EID: 2342595178     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.823047     Document Type: Article

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