Improved fuzzy c-means segmentation algorithm for images with intensity inhomogeneity

Advances in Soft Computing

Volumn 41, Issue , 2007, Pages 150-159

  Zhao, Qingjie ^a   Song, Jingjing ^a   Wu, Yueyin ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fuzzy c means; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 59549089847     PISSN: 16153871     EISSN: 18600794     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72432-2_16     Document Type: Article

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