Fuzzy C-means techniques for medical image segmentation

Huiyu Zhou*, Gerald Schaefer, Chunmei Shi

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    Abstract

    Segmentation is an important step in many medical imaging applications and a variety of image segmentation techniques exist. One group of segmentation algorithms is based on clustering concepts. In this chapter we provide an overview of several fuzzy c-means based clustering approaches and their application to medical imaging. In particular we evaluate the conventional hard c-means and fuzzy c-means (FCM) approches as well as three computationally more efficient derivatives of fuzzy c-means: Fast FCM with random sampling, fast generalised FCM, and a new anisotropic mean shift based FCM.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationFuzzy systems in bioinformatics and computational biology
    EditorsYaochu Jin, Lipo Wang
    Place of PublicationBerlin (DE)
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages257-271
    Number of pages15
    ISBN (Electronic)978-3-540-89968-6
    ISBN (Print)978-3-540-89967-9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jan 2009

    Publication series

    NameStudies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing
    PublisherSpringer
    Volume242
    ISSN (Print)1434-9922

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