Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 33, Issue 8 , Pages 644-650 , December 2009

A vectorial image soft segmentation method based on neighborhood weighted Gaussian mixture model

  • Hui Tang

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Image Science and Technology, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, 210096 Nanjing, China
    • Centre de Recherche en Information Biomédicale Sino-Français (CRIBs)
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Laboratory of Image Science and Technology, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, 2 Si Pai Lou, 210096, Nanjing, China. Tel.: +86 25 83 79 42 49; fax: +86 25 83 79 26 98.
    • ,
  • Jean-Louis Dillenseger

      Affiliations

    • INSERM U642, Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l’Image, Université de Rennes I, 35042 Rennes, France
    • Centre de Recherche en Information Biomédicale Sino-Français (CRIBs)
    • ,
  • Xu Dong Bao

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Image Science and Technology, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, 210096 Nanjing, China
    • Centre de Recherche en Information Biomédicale Sino-Français (CRIBs)
    • ,
  • Li Min Luo

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Image Science and Technology, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, 210096 Nanjing, China
    • Centre de Recherche en Information Biomédicale Sino-Français (CRIBs)

Received 31 March 2009 ,Revised 30 June 2009 ,Accepted 7 July 2009.

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☆ This work is partly supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2010CB732503).

PII: S0895-6111(09)00084-6

doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2009.07.001

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 33, Issue 8 , Pages 644-650 , December 2009

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