Masseter segmentation using an improved watershed algorithm with unsupervised classification

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-184

  Ng, H P ^a,b   Ong, S H ^c   Foong, K W C ^a,c   Goh, P S ^c   Nowinski, W L ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; K means clustering; Watershed segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS; WATERSHEDS;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; K MEANS CLUSTERING; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HISTOGRAM; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; MASSETER MUSCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MASSETER MUSCLE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 37549066673     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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