Brain tissue segmentation based on spatial information fusion by Dempster-Shafer theory

Journal of Zhejiang University: Science C

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 520-533

  Ghasemi, Jamal ^a   Karami Mollaei, Mohammad Reza ^a   Ghaderi, Reza ^a   Hojjatoleslami, Ali ^b  

^a BABOL NOSHIRVANI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dempster Shafer theory (DST); Fuzzy c mean (FCM); Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY INDEX; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BELIEF STRUCTURES; BRAIN MRI; BRAIN TISSUE; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; FUZZY C MEAN; NONUNIFORMITY; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION FUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

BRAIN;

EID: 84864584104     PISSN: 18691951     EISSN: 1869196X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1631/jzus.C1100288     Document Type: Article

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