Integrating spatial fuzzy clustering with level set methods for automated medical image segmentation

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-10

  Li, Bing Nan ^a   Chui, Chee Kong ^a   Chang, Stephen ^b   Ong, S H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adaptive clustering; Level set methods; Medical image segmentation; Spatial fuzzy clustering

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CLUSTERING; CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; INITIAL SEGMENTATION; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET ALGORITHM; LEVEL SET METHOD; LEVEL SET SEGMENTATION; LEVEL-SET EVOLUTION; MANUAL INTERVENTION; MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGES; OPTIMAL CONFIGURATIONS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; ROBUST SEGMENTATION; SPATIAL FUZZY CLUSTERING;

ALGORITHMS; DROP BREAKUP; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FUZZY SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CAROTID ARTERIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER;

EID: 78650544135     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2010.10.007     Document Type: Article

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