Robust kernel FCM in segmentation of breast medical images

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 4382-4389

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

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b GRU   (India)

^c PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Clustering; Fuzzy c means; Image segmentation; Kernel function; MR imaging; Tangent function

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; FUZZY C MEAN; KERNEL FUNCTION; MR IMAGING; TANGENT FUNCTIONS;

COPYING; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 78650691983     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.09.107     Document Type: Article

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