A framework of fuzzy information fusion for the segmentation of brain tumor tissues on MR images

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 164-171

  Dou, Weibei ^a,b   Ruan, Su ^c   Chen, Yanping ^d   Bloyet, Daniel ^b   Constans, Jean Marc ^e  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^d FIRST MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Fuzzy; Information fusion; MRI; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS;

BRAIN TUMOR; FUZZY INFORMATION FUSION; PROTON DENSITY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33845339640     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2006.01.025     Document Type: Article

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