Modified fuzzy c-means algorithm for segmentation of T1T2-weighted brain MRI

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 235, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1578-1586

  Ramathilagam, S ^a   Pandiyarajan, R ^b   Sathya, A ^b   Devi, R ^b   Kannan, S R ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b GRU   (India)

Author keywords

Brain MRI; Clustering; Data analysis; FCM; Modified FCM; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MRI; CLUSTERING; DATA ANALYSIS; FCM; MODIFIED FCM; SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COPYING; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 78049245404     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2010.08.033     Document Type: Article

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