Title :
Medical Image Segmentation Using Improved Mountain Clustering Approach
Author :
Verma, Nishchal K. ; Gupta, Payal ; Agrawal, Pooja ; Hanmandlu, M. ; Vasikarla, Shantaram ; Cui, Yan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mol. Sci., Univ. of Tennessee, Memphis, TN
Abstract :
This paper presents Improved Mountain Clustering (IMC) based medical image segmentation. Proposed technique is a more powerful approach for X-Ray image based diagnosing diseases like lung cancer and tuberculosis. The IMC based segmentation approach was applied on lung X-Ray images and compared with some existing techniques such as K-Means and FCM based segmentation approaches. The performance of all these segmentation approaches is compared in terms of cluster entropy as a measure of information. The segments obtained from the methods have been verified visually.
Keywords :
cancer; computational complexity; diagnostic radiography; image segmentation; lung; medical image processing; pattern clustering; computational complexity; disease diagnosing; improved mountain clustering approach; lung X-ray image; lung cancer; medical image segmentation; tuberculosis; Biomedical imaging; Clustering algorithms; Computational complexity; Genomics; Image generation; Image segmentation; Information technology; Lungs; Medical diagnostic imaging; X-ray imaging; IMC; Image Segmentation; Modified Mountain Clustering; Validity Function and Cluster Entropy;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology: New Generations, 2009. ITNG '09. Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3770-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3596-8
DOI :
10.1109/ITNG.2009.238