An artificial ant colonies approach to medical image segmentation

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 267-273

  Huang, Peng ^a   Cao, Huizhi ^a   Luo, Shuqian ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Artificial ant colonies; Image segmentation; Pheromone

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

ACCURATE; ARTIFICIAL ANT COLONIES; EXTENDED MODELS; FUZZY CONNECTEDNESSES; HUMAN BRAINS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATIONS; NEW ALGORITHMS; PHEROMONE; REFERENCE OBJECTS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SELF-ORGANIZATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

PHEROMONE;

ALGORITHM; ANT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGANISM COLONY; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 54349090044     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2008.06.012     Document Type: Article

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