Development of image-processing software for automatic segmentation of brain tumors in MR images

Journal of Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 147-158

  Vijayakumar, C ^a   Gharpure, Damayanti ^b  

^a ARMED FORCES MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

Author keywords

Brain tumors; image processing; medical image segmentation; neural networks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 80051883946     PISSN: 09716203     EISSN: 19983913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0971-6203.83481     Document Type: Article

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