Medical image segmentation by a multi-agent system approach

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

Volumn 4687 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 49-60

  Benamrane, Nacéra ^a   Nassane, Samir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET DE LA TECHNOLOGIE D ORAN MOHAMED BOUDIAF   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Cooperation; FIPA; Interaction protocol; JADE; Medical image segmentation; Multi agent system; Negotiation; Region growing

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MESSAGE PASSING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

FIPA; INTERACTION PROTOCOL; JADE; MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; REGION GROWING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 38049014492     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74949-3_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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