Title
Medical image segmentation using improved FCM
Abstract
Image segmentation is one of the most important problems in medical image processing, and the existence of partial volume effect and other phenomena makes the problem much more complex. Fuzzy C-means, as an effective tool to deal with PVE, however, is faced with great challenges in efficiency. Aiming at this, this paper proposes one improved FCM algorithm based on the histogram of the given image, which will be denoted as HisFCM and divided into two phases. The first phase will retrieve several intervals on which to compute cluster centroids, and the second one will perform image segmentation based on improved FCM algorithm. Compared with FCM and other improved algorithms, HisFCM is of much higher efficiency with satisfying results. Experiments on medical images show that HisFCM can achieve good segmentation results in less than 0.1 second, and can satisfy real-time requirements of medical image processing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/s11432-012-4556-0
SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences
Keywords
DocType
Volume
medical image processing,histogram,fcm,image segmentation
Journal
55
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
1869-1919
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.63
16
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaofeng Zhang1788.90
Caiming Zhang244688.19
tang wenjing3100.63
w ei zhenwen4100.97