A robust segmentation approach for noisy medical images using fuzzy clustering with spatial probability

International Arab Journal of Information Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Beevi, Zulaikha ^a   Sathik, Mohamed ^b  

^a NATIONAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b Sadakathullah Appa College (Autonomous)   (India)

Author keywords

Clustering; Denoising; FCM; Histogram; Image segmentation; Local pixel grouping (LPG); Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Medical images; Membership function; Principal component analysis (PCA); Spatial probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 83255188893     PISSN: 16833198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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