Fuzzy c-means clustering for segmenting carotid artery ultrasound images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4633 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 945-948

  Abdel Dayem, Amr R ^a   El Sakka, Mahmoud R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

CAROTID ARTERY ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

FUZZY CLUSTERING;

EID: 37849039870     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74260-9_83     Document Type: Conference Paper

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