Unsupervised brain MRI segmentation using improved expectation-maximization algorithm

Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing

Volumn 165 AISC, Issue , 2012, Pages 785-792

  Zhao, Jianjun ^a   Ren, Jixiang ^a   Qu, Shi ^a  

^a CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Bayesian Information Criterion; Expectation Maximization; Image Segmentation; MRI

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION; BRAIN MRI; DATA DISTRIBUTION; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PIXELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; MR IMAGES; SEGMENTATION METHODS; UNSUPERVISED IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84861856329     PISSN: 18675662     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29637-6_106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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