Interactive segmentation of the cerebral lobes with fuzzy inference in 3T MR images

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 74-86

  Kobashi, Syoji ^a   Fujiki, Yuji ^a,b   Matsui, Meiko ^c,d   Inoue, Noriko ^c,e   Kondo, Katsuya ^a   Hata, Yutaka ^a   Sawada, Tohru ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c BF Research Institute Inc   (Japan)

^d NISHI KOBE MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f Aino Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomedical image processing; Fuzzy logic; Image segmentation; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; FUZZY SETS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL LOBES; FUZZY INFERENCE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FUZZY LOGIC; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 31744436366     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2005.852981     Document Type: Article

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