Neighbourhood weighted fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm for image segmentation

IET Image Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 150-161

  Zaixin, Zhao ^a,b   Lizhi, Cheng ^b   Guangquan, Cheng ^b  

^a Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; LOCAL CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE BRAIN IMAGES; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; SIMILARITY MEASURE; STRUCTURE INFORMATION; WEIGHTED FUZZY C-MEANS;

BRAIN MAPPING; FUZZY CLUSTERING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84896817040     PISSN: 17519659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-ipr.2011.0128     Document Type: Article

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