Abstract
Brain image segmentation is one of the most important parts of clinical diagnostic tools. Fuzzy C-mean (FCM) is one of the most popular clustering based segmentation methods. In this paper, a review of the FCM based segmentation algorithms for brain MRI images is presented. The review covers algorithms for FCM based segmentation algorithms, their comparative evaluations based on reported results and the result of experiments for neighborhood based extensions for FCM.
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