Level set initialization based on modified fuzzy C means thresholding for automated segmentation of skin lesions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8228 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2013, Pages 341-351

  Masood, Ammara ^a   Al Jumaily, Adel Ali ^a   Maali, Yashar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active contours; Diagnosis; Fuzzy; Segmentation; Skin cancer; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; AUTOMATED DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS; FALSE POSITIVE AND FALSE NEGATIVES; FUZZY; FUZZY C MEAN CLUSTERING; INITIALIZATION METHODS; SKIN CANCERS; THRESHOLDING;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; DERMATOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84893357155     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-42051-1_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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