An Improved Fuzzy C-means Method for Brain MR Images Segmentation
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چکیده
Due to the effect of noise in brain MR images, it is difficult for the traditional fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering algorithm to obtain desirable segmentation results. Combining the information of patch to reduce the effect of noise has been a focus of current research. However, the traditional patch method is isotropic, so that it would lose the structure information easily. In this paper, a novel fuzzy C-means method based on the spatial similarity information is proposed. To be anisotropy and preserve more structure information, this method takes both the non-local information and spatial structural similarity (SSIM) between the image patches into consideration, and then a new distance function is established between every pixels and category centers for image segmentation. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated by experiments of synthetic brain MR images.
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