A new fuzzy approach to brain tumor segmentation

2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gordillo, Nelly ^a   Montseny, Eduard ^a   Sobrevilla, Pilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BRAIN TUMOR SEGMENTATION; EXISTING METHOD; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; FUZZY APPROACH; HEURISTIC RULES; HUMAN KNOWLEDGE; INTENSITY-BASED; MR IMAGES; OBJECTIVE MEASURE;

MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; TUMORS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 78549255202     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FUZZY.2010.5584178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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