Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 245-254 , February 2010

An improved lesion detection approach based on similarity measurement between fuzzy intensity segmentation and spatial probability maps

Received 21 January 2009 ,Revised 21 May 2009 ,Accepted 25 June 2009.

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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