Fuzzy entropy based optimization of clusters for the segmentation of lungs in CT scanned images

Knowledge and Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 91-111

  Jaffar, M Arfan ^a   Hussain, Ayyaz ^a   Mirza, Anwar Majid ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Mathematical morphology; Segmentation; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; ENTROPY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BACKGROUND REMOVAL; BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; CLUSTER VALIDITY; OPTIMAL NUMBER; OPTIMAL THRESHOLD; SCANNED IMAGES; THRESHOLDING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953915351     PISSN: 02191377     EISSN: 02193116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10115-009-0225-z     Document Type: Article

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