A Hybrid hierarchical approach for brain tissue segmentation by combining brain Atlas and least square support vector machine

Journal of Medical Signals and Sensors

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 232-243

  Kasiri, Keyvan ^a   Kazemi, Kamran ^a   Dehghani, Mohammad ^a   Helfroush, Mohammad ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Atlas; brain; magnetic resonance imaging; segmentation; support vector machines

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013761364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22287477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/2228-7477.128325     Document Type: Article

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