Evidential segmentation scheme of multi-echo MR images for the detection of brain tumors using neighborhood information

Information Fusion

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 203-216

  Capelle, A S ^a   Colot, O ^b   Fernandez Maloigne, C ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Conflict; Data fusion; Decision; Evidence theory; Multi modality imaging; Neighborhood relationship; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DATA ACQUISITION; DEMODULATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

DATA FUSION; EVIDENCE THEORY; MULTI-MODALITY IMAGING; NEIGHBORHOOD RELATIONSHIP;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 3142676666     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2003.10.001     Document Type: Article

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