Fuzzy spatial growing for glioblastoma multiforme segmentation on brain magnetic resonance imaging

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

Volumn 4756 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 861-870

  Veloz, Alejandro ^a   Chabert, Steren ^a   Salas, Rodrigo ^a   Orellana, Antonio ^b   Vielma, Juan ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^b HOSPITAL CARLOS VAN BUREN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion filter; Fuzzy C means; Fuzzy Spatial Growing (FSG); Glioblastoma multiforme; Image segmentation; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Region growing

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TUMORS;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION FILTERS; FUZZY C-MEANS; FUZZY SPATIAL GROWING (FSG); GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 38449093227     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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