Automated segmentation of brain MR images by combining Contourlet Transform and K-means Clustering techniques

• Main Authors: Arshad, Javed, Wang, Yin Chai, Narayanan, Kulathuramaiyer, Muhammad Salim, Javed, Abdulhameed, Rakan Alenezi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN) 2013
• Subjects: R Medicine (General); T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16526/1/ARSHAD%20JAVED.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16526/; http:///www.jatit.org/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Segmentation is usually conceived as a compulsory phase for the analysis and classification to the field of medical imaging. The aim of the paper is to find a means for the segmentation of brain from MR images by technique of combining Contourlet Transform and K-Means Clustering in an automatic way....