Soft thresholding for medical image segmentation

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4752-4755

  Aja Fernández, Santiago ^a   Vegas Sánchez Ferrero, Gonzalo ^a   Martín Fernández, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELONG TO; HARD DECISIONS; MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; SOFT THRESHOLDING; SPATIAL PROCESSING; THRESHOLDING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIXELS;

MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78650831344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626376     Document Type: Conference Paper

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