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Incorporating Prior Information in the Fuzzy C-mean Algorithm with Application to Brain Tissues Segmentation in MRI

Research Authors
Moumen El-Melegy, and Hashim Mokhtar
Research Department
Research Year
2009
Research Journal
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'09),
Research_Pages
3393-3396
Research Abstract

This paper introduces a new formula for the objective function of the famous fuzzy C-means algorithm. Two weighted terms are added to the objective function to reflect any available information about the class center and class pixels distribution throughout the datasets. The algorithm is evaluated for the task of the segmentation of medical MRI brain volume. The results show that the algorithm has a considerable robustness against noise and partial volume effects, and it needs a smaller number of iterations to reach convergence compared with other similar algorithms.