A hierarchical genetic algorithm for segmentation of multi-spectral human-brain MRI

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1285-1295

  Yeh, Jinn Yi ^a   Fu, J C ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Clustering; Hierarchical genetic algorithm (HGA); Learning vector quantization (LVQ); Magnetic resonance images (MRI); Segmentation

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TUMORS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

HIERARCHICAL GENETIC ALGORITHM (HGA); LEARNING VECTOR QUANTIZATION (LVQ); OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUE;

BRAIN;

EID: 36148999486     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2006.12.012     Document Type: Article

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