MRI image segmentation using unsupervised clustering techniques

Proceedings - Sixth International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, ICCIMA 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 105-110

  Selvathi, D ^a   Arulmurgan, A ^a   Thamarai Selvi, S ^b   Alagappan, S ^c  

^a MEPCO SCHLENK ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^b ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Devaki MRI and CT Scans   (India)

Author keywords

Fuzzy C Means; Genetic Algorithm; Homomorphic Filtering; MR Imaging; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARDIOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOLOGY; TUMORS;

FUZZY C MEANS; GRAY MATTER (GM); HOMOMORPHIC FILTERING; WHITE MATTER (WM);

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33749378232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCIMA.2005.40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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