Fuzziness in medical image processing: Representation and models

Abstract

This work discusses Fuzziness in Medical Image Processing. We start summarizing different techniques of medical image acquisition and their main features. Examining the specialized literature, we discuss the fuzziness present in these images, including Fuzziness in pixel information and Fuzziness in model representation. Further, we present a review of themost popular fuzzy techniques for medical image segmentation which is one of the main steps in the processing of medical images. The work finishes with an example of a MRI brain image segmentation problem. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.