An adaptive spatial clustering method for automatic brain MR image segmentation

Progress in Natural Science

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1373-1382

  Zhang, Jingdan ^a   Dai, Daoqing ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive spatial distance; Growing hierarchical SOM; Image segmentation; MR images; Self organizing map

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ADAPTIVE SPATIAL DISTANCE; BRAIN MR IMAGE SEGMENTATION; CLUSTERING METHODS; COMPETITIVE LEARNING; GROWING HIERARCHICAL SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS; IMAGES SEGMENTATIONS; MR-IMAGES; SELF-ORGANIZING-MAPS; SPATIAL CLUSTERING; SPATIAL DISTANCE;

SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

EID: 70350618311     PISSN: 10020071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnsc.2009.03.012     Document Type: Article

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