Segmentation and classification of cervix lesions by pattern and texture analysis

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 234-246

  Srinivasan, Yeshwanth ^a   Gao, Fei ^a   Tulpule, Bhakti ^a   Yang, Shuyu ^a   Mitra, Sunanda ^a   Nutter, Brian ^a  

^a Texas Tech University   (United States)

Author keywords

automated segmentation; cervix lesions; classification; fuzzy c means; morphological operators; texture analysis; uncertainties

Indexed keywords

EID: 46449113362     PISSN: 17408865     EISSN: 17408873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijista.2006.009906     Document Type: Article

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