Automatic segmentation of brain MRI through stationary wavelet transform and random forests

Pattern Analysis and Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 829-843

  Bendib, Mohamed Mokhtar ^a   Merouani, Hayet Farida ^a   Diaba, Fatma ^a  

^a BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion filtering; Brain MRI segmentation; Random forests; Stationary wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941994158     PISSN: 14337541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10044-014-0373-y     Document Type: Article

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