Modified Akaike information criterion for estimating the number of components in a probability mixture model

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2497-2500

  Elnakib, Ahmed ^a   Gimel'Farb, Georgy ^b   Inanc, Tamer ^a   El Baz, Ayman ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Akaike information criterion; medical image segmentation; Mixture model; modified AIC; number of components

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MIXTURE MODEL; MODIFIED AIC; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

MIXTURES;

EID: 84875848909     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2012.6467405     Document Type: Conference Paper

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