A simple method for detecting tumor in T2-weighted MRI brain images: An image-based analysis

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E89-D, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1270-1279

  Lau, Phooi Yee ^a,b,c   Ozawa, Shinji ^a,b,d,e  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IEEE   (United States)

^c ISCB   (United States)

^d Department of Information and Computer Science ^*

^e IPSJ   (Japan)

Author keywords

Block based method; Brain tumor; Content specific analysis; Global discriminate value; Medical image processing; Sobel edge detector; Tumor detection

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DATA PROCESSING; DETECTORS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TEXTURES;

BLOCK-BASED METHOD; CONTENT-SPECIFIC ANALYSIS; DIGITIZED MEDICAL IMAGES; GLOBAL DISCRIMINATE VALUE; LESIONS; SOBEL EDGE DETECTOR; SPATIAL PIXEL INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION;

TUMORS;

EID: 33645765824     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e89-d.3.1270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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