An intelligent modified fuzzy c-means based algorithm for bias estimation and segmentation of brain MRI

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 2052-2062

  Siyal, M Y ^a   Yu, Lin ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

FCM; Medical image processing; MRI; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

FCM; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 24344477133     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2005.03.019     Document Type: Article

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