An improved intuitionistic fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm incorporating local information for brain image segmentation

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 46, Issue , 2016, Pages 543-557

  Verma, Hanuman ^a   Agrawal, R K ^a   Sharan, Aditi ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Fuzzy c means; Image segmentation; Intuitionistic fuzzy c means; Intuitionistic fuzzy sets; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

FUZZY C MEAN; FUZZY C-MEANS ALGORITHMS; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY C-MEANS; INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY SETS; NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84953305831     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2015.12.022     Document Type: Article

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