Improvement of brain lesions detection using information fusion approach

International Conference on Signal Processing Proceedings, ICSP

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1104-1107

  Ganna, M ^a   Rombaut, M ^a   Goutte, R ^a   Zhu, Y M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Evidence theory; Image segmentation; MRJ; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; COMPLEX OPERATIONS; EVIDENCE THEORIES; MRJ; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTED IMAGES; SEGMENTED REGIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84949202830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICOSP.2002.1179982     Document Type: Conference Paper

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