Semiautomatic Epicardial Fat Segmentation Based on Fuzzy c-Means Clustering and Geometric Ellipse Fitting

Figure 8

Results for one particular CT image slice by the proposed segmentation method in comparison to the manual segmentation obtained by medical doctors and the three reference methods (snake, region growing, and LAMT): (a) -cut of the resulting cluster; (b) the proposed segmentation approach; (c) manual segmentation performed by medical doctors; (d) LAMT [18]; (e) region growing [21]; (f) snake [20].

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