Enhanced Possibilistic Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm for Normal and Pathological Brain Tissue Segmentation on Magnetic Resonance Brain Image

Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2375-2388

  Rajendran, A ^a   Dhanasekaran, R ^b  

^a SriGuru Institute of Technology   (India)

^b SYED AMMAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Fuzzy c means; Medical image segmentation; MRI; Spatial information

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881608232     PISSN: 2193567X     EISSN: 21914281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13369-013-0559-4     Document Type: Article

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