3D MRI brain image segmentation based on region restricted EM algorithm

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6914, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Li, Zhong ^a   Fan, Jianping ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; MRI; Region restricted EM

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EM ALGORITHM; GAUSSIAN MODELS;

BRAIN;

EID: 43449132128     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.770973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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