Improved toboggan segmentation algorithm for magnetic resonance images

ICIEA 2007: 2007 Second IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2504-2507

  Guo, Li ^a   Wu, Jianhua ^a   Pian, Zhao Yu ^a   Wang, Kun ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; MRI; Pulse coupled neural network; Toboggan

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

MEDICAL SCIENCE; PULSE COUPLED NEURAL NETWORKS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 35248839515     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIEA.2007.4318861     Document Type: Conference Paper

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