A Gaussian kernel-based fuzzy c-means algorithm with a spatial bias correction

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1713-1725

  Yang, Miin Shen ^a,b   Tsai, Hsu Shen ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAKMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy c means (FCM); Fuzzy clustering; Gaussian kernel based FCM; Image segmentation; MRI data; Spatial bias correction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MICROFLUIDICS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

BIAS CORRECTIONS; FUZZY C MEANS (FCM); FUZZY C MEANS (FCM) ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN KERNELS; SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS;

FUZZY CLUSTERING;

EID: 45849113230     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2008.04.016     Document Type: Article

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