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A watershed approach for improving medical image segmentation

E.A. ZanatyDepartment of Computer Science, College of Science, Sohag University, Sohag, EgyptCorrespondence[email protected]
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Ashraf AfifiDepartment of Computer Engineering, High Technological Institute, 10th of Ramadan City, Egypt
Pages 1262-1272 | Received 12 Mar 2011, Accepted 12 Feb 2012, Published online: 30 Mar 2012

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