MR imaging enhancement and segmentation of tumor using fuzzy Curvelet

International Journal of Physical Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 7242-7246

  Arfan Jaffar, M ^a   Mirza, Abdulrahman Abdulkarim ^b   Mahmud, Maqsood ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Brain magnetic resonance imaging segmentation; Modified fuzzy C mean; Wrapping based curvelet

Indexed keywords

EID: 82855176787     PISSN: 19921950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.418     Document Type: Article

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