Generalized fuzzy clustering for segmentation of multi-spectral magnetic resonance images

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 353-366

  He, Renjie ^a   Datta, Sushmita ^a   Sajja, Balasrinivasa Rao ^a   Narayana, Ponnada A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive FCM; Contextual constraints; G K algorithm; Inhomogeneity field; MRI; Multi spectral segmentation; Similarity measures

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY CLUSTERING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CONTEXTUAL CONSTRAINTS; INHOMOGENEITY FIELDS; MULTISPECTRAL SEGMENTATION; SIMILARITY MEASURES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 44149104064     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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