Application of K- and fuzzy c-means for color segmentation of thermal infrared breast images

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-42

  Etehadtavakol, M ^a   Sadri, S ^a   Ng, E Y K ^b,c  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Color segmentation; Digital infrared thermal imaging; Fuzzy c means; K means

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST THERMOGRAPHY; CAMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; FUZZY SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; K MEANS ALGORITHM; LEARNING ALGORITHM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFRARED RAYS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77949269627     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-008-9213-1     Document Type: Article

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