Automatic tissue classification in multispectral MRIs via an unsupervised model

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1048-1056

  Yousefi, Sahar ^a   Zahedi, Morteza ^a   Azmi, Reza ^b  

^a SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ALZAHRA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Improved Genetic Algorithm; Magnetic Resonance Image; Markov Random Field Model; Stochastic Relaxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859420087     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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