Fast automatic medical image segmentation based on spatial kernel fuzzy c-means on level set method

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1469-1488

  Alipour, Siavash ^a   Shanbehzadeh, Jamshid ^a  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Chan Vese; Fast two cycle; Level set method; Medical image segmentation; Spatial kernel fuzzy c means

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

CHAN-VESE; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; FAST TWO CYCLE; FUZZY C MEAN; LEVEL SET METHOD; REGION OF INTEREST; ROBUSTNESS AGAINST NOISE; ROUGH SEGMENTATION;

DROP BREAKUP;

EID: 84904458991     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-014-0606-5     Document Type: Article

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