A hierarchical evolutionary algorithm for automatic medical image segmentation

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 248-259

  Lai, Chih Chin ^a   Chang, Chuan Yu ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hierarchical evolutionary algorithm; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FLOW OF SOLIDS; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HOPFIELD NEURAL NETWORKS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

CLUSTERING METHODS; DYNAMIC THRESHOLDING; FUZZY C-MEANS; HIERARCHICAL EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURING; HOPFIELD; K-MEANS; MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION RESULTS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 53849098345     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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