Two-dimensional fuzzy clustering for ultrasound image segmentation

2007 1st International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, ICBBE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 599-603

  Yu, Jin Hua ^a   Wang, Yuan Yuan ^a   Chen, Ping ^b   Xu, Hui Ying ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Health Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Despeckle filtering; Inhomogeneity compensation; Two dimensional fuzzy clustering; Ultrasound image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; FUZZY LOGIC; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; ULTRASONICS;

FETAL AORTIC ARCH IMAGES; GRADIENT VECTOR FIELD; SPECKLE REDUCING ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION (SRAD) FILTER; SYNTHETIC IMAGE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FUZZY C-MEANS (2DFCM) ALGORITHM;

FUZZY CLUSTERING;

EID: 35348902030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBBE.2007.157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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