MRI brain tumor segmentation with region growing method based on the gradients and variances along and inside of the boundary curve

Proceedings - 2010 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 393-396

  Deng, Wankai ^a   Xiao, Wei ^a   Deng, He ^a   Liu, Jianguo ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Gradien; MRI; Region growing; Variance

Indexed keywords

BRAIN TUMORS; GRADIEN; MRI; REGION GROWING; VARIANCE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; TUMORS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 78650643472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BMEI.2010.5639536     Document Type: Conference Paper

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