Effective fuzzy c-mean clustering technique for segmentation of T1-T2 brain MRI

ARTCom 2009 - International Conference on Advances in Recent Technologies in Communication and Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 537-539

  Kannan, S R ^a   Pandiyarajan, R ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b GANDHIGRAM RURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bias field; Data analysis; FCM; MRI; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DATA ANALYSIS; BIAS FIELD; BRAIN MRI; FCM ALGORITHM; FUZZY C MEAN; IMAGE NOISE; MRI SEGMENTATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS;

FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SYSTEMS;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 73849092232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ARTCom.2009.63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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