Harmony search-based cluster initialization for fuzzy C-means segmentation of MR images

IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference, Proceedings/TENCON

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Alia, Osama Moh'd ^a   Mandava, Rajeswari ^a   Ramachandram, Dhanesh ^a   Aziz, Mohd Ezane ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER CENTERS; CLUSTER INITIALIZATION; COMPUTATION TIME; FCM ALGORITHM; FUZZY C MEAN; FUZZY C-MEANS; HARMONY SEARCH; INITIAL CLUSTER CENTERS; INITIALIZATION PROBLEM; META-HEURISTIC SEARCH; MR IMAGES; MRI SEGMENTATION; NEW APPROACHES; SEARCH SPACES; STABLE CLUSTERING;

FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY RULES;

FUZZY SYSTEMS;

EID: 77951099912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TENCON.2009.5396049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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