International Journal of Soft Computing
Year:
2014
Volume:
9
Issue:
4
Page No.
194 - 199
Comparison of Traditional Morphology and Fuzzy Watershed Transformation in Medical Image Segmentation
Authors :
R. Latha
and
S. Sentil Kumar
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