Automated segmentation of skin lesions: Modified Fuzzy C mean thresholding based level set method

2013 16th International Multi Topic Conference, INMIC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 201-206

  Masood, Ammara ^a   Al Jumaily, Adel Ali ^a   Hoshyar, Azadeh Noori ^a   Masood, Omama ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DERMATOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR METHOD; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; FALSE POSITIVE AND FALSE NEGATIVES; INITIALIZATION METHODS; LEVEL SET SEGMENTATION; LEVEL-SET EVOLUTION; THRESHOLDING ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84894502504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INMIC.2013.6731350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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