Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 2 , Pages 219-226 , April 2010

Combining atlas based segmentation and intensity classification with nearest neighbor transform and accuracy weighted vote

  • Michaël Sdika

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    • This work is supported by CNRS (UMR 6612) and Institut Universitaire de France.
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Received 1 April 2009 ,Revised 20 November 2009 ,Accepted 9 December 2009.

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Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 2 , Pages 219-226 , April 2010

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