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B. N. Li, C. K. Chui, S. Chang and S. H. Ong, “Integrating Spatial Fuzzy Clustering with Level Set Methods for Automated Medical Image Segmentation,” Computers in Biology and Medicine, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2011, pp. 1–10. doi:10.1016/j.compbiomed.2010.10.007

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• TITLE: Liver Segmentation from CT Image Using Fuzzy Clustering and Level Set

  AUTHORS: Xuechen Li, Suhuai Luo, Jiaming Li

  KEYWORDS: Liver Segmentation; Fuzzy c-Mean Clustering; Level Set

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Signal and Information Processing, Vol.4 No.3B, October 16, 2013

  ABSTRACT: This paper presents a fully automatic segmentation method of liver CT scans using fuzzy c-mean clustering and level set. First, the contrast of original image is enhanced to make boundaries clearer; second, a spatial fuzzy c-mean clustering combining with anatomical prior knowledge is employed to extract liver region automatically; thirdly, a distance regularized level set is used for refinement; finally, morphological operations are used as post-processing. The experiment result shows that the method can achieve high accuracy (0.9986) and specificity (0.9989). Comparing with standard level set method, our method is more effective in dealing with over-segmentation problem.