Brain magnetic resonance image segmentation using novel improvement for expectation maximizing

Neurosciences

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 242-247

  Balafar, Mohammad A ^a   Ramli, Abdul Rahman ^a   Mashohor, Syamsiah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUZZY SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROBABILITY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 79959339854     PISSN: 13196138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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