Spatial Fuzzy C Means and Expectation Maximization Algorithms with Bias Correction for Segmentation of MR Brain Images

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Meena Prakash, R ^a   Shantha Selva Kumari, R ^b  

^a P S R ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^b MEPCO SCHLENK ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Expectation maximization; Fuzzy C means; Gaussian mixture model; MR brain image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; FUZZY C MEAN; FUZZY SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 85003794062     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-016-0662-7     Document Type: Article

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