Segmentation of MR osteosarcoma images

There is a large body of literature about MR image segmentation methods. In this paper we briefly review these methods, particular emphasis is based on the relative merits of single image versus multispectral segmentation, and supervised versus unsupervised segmentation methods. Finally, we discuss that how to segment osteosarcoma into tumor tissue classes based on three different MR weighted image parameters (T1, PD, and T2) using unsupervised fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering algorithm technique for pattern recognition.

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