Medical image segmentation using fuzzy C-mean (FCM) and user specified data

Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-14

  Balafar, M A ^a   Rahman Ramli, A B D ^a   Saripan, M Iqbal ^a   Mashohor, Syamsiah ^a   Mahmud, Rozi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

FCM; Image segmentation; MRI; Re clustering; Supervised methods

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC FILTERS; CLINICAL DIAGNOSTIC TOOL; CLINICAL TOOLS; CLUSTERING METHODS; COLOR IMAGES; FEATURE DISTANCE; FUZZY C MEAN; GREY-LEVEL IMAGES; INHOMOGENEITIES; MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGES; RE-CLUSTERING; TARGET CLASS; TRAINING DATA;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FUZZY RULES; FUZZY SYSTEMS; TARGETS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77951565276     PISSN: 02181266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218126610005913     Document Type: Article

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