Fuzzy C-mean based brain MRI segmentation algorithms

Artificial Intelligence Review

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 441-449

  Balafar, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Brain; FCM; MRI

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894475061     PISSN: 02692821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10462-012-9318-2     Document Type: Article

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