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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 45 - Number 3
Year of Publication: 2012
Authors: E. A. Zanaty
10.5120/6759-9021

E. A. Zanaty . Determination of Gray Matter (GM) and White Matter (WM) Volume in Brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI). International Journal of Computer Applications. 45, 3 ( May 2012), 16-22. DOI=10.5120/6759-9021

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author = { E. A. Zanaty },
title = { Determination of Gray Matter (GM) and White Matter (WM) Volume in Brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { May 2012 },
volume = { 45 },
number = { 3 },
month = { May },
year = { 2012 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 16-22 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume45/number3/6759-9021/ },
doi = { 10.5120/6759-9021 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%T Determination of Gray Matter (GM) and White Matter (WM) Volume in Brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI)
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%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

In this paper we present a hybrid approach based on combining fuzzy clustering, seed region growing, and Jaccard similarity coefficient algorithms to measure gray (GM) and white matter tissue (WM) volumes from magnetic resonance images (MRIs). The proposed algorithm incorporates intensity and anatomic information for segmenting of MRIs into different tissue classes, especially GM and WM. It starts by partitioning the image into different regions using fuzzy clustering. These regions are fed to seed region growing (SRG) method to isolate the suitable closed region. The seeds of SRG are selected as the output centers of the fuzzy clustering method. To compare the performance of various outputs of seed region technique Jaccard similarity coefficient is used to merge the similar regions in one segment. The proposed algorithm is applied to challenging applications: gray matter/white matter segmentation in magnetic resonance image (MRI) datasets. The experimental results show that the proposed technique produces accurate and stable results.

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Fuzzy Clustering Seed Region Growing Performance Measure Mri Brain Database

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