A novel fuzzy Dempster-Shafer inference system for brain MRI segmentation

Information Sciences

Volumn 223, Issue , 2013, Pages 205-220

  Ghasemi, J ^a   Ghaderi, R ^a   Karami Mollaei, M R ^a   Hojjatoleslami, S A ^b  

^a BABOL NOSHIRVANI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain MRI; Dempster Shafer Theory; Fuzzy; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; BRAIN MRI; BRAIN TISSUE; DATA SETS; DEMPSTER-SHAFER; DEMPSTER-SHAFER BELIEF STRUCTURE; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; FUZZY; FUZZY APPROACH; FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEMS; INFERENCE SYSTEMS; NONUNIFORMITY; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; PIXEL INTENSITIES; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

FUZZY INFERENCE;

EID: 84870235966     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2012.08.026     Document Type: Article

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