Medical Image Segmentation Using Artificial Neural Networks

Abstract

RBF neural networks belong to the feed-forward networks while Hopfield, Cellular, and Pulse-Coupled neural networks belong to the feedback networks.This chapter is organized as follows.Section 2 explains methods that benefit from feedback networks such as Hopfield, Cellular, and Pulse-Coupled neural networks for image segmentation.In Section 3, we review the methods that use feedforward networks such as MLP and RBF neural networks.Then, we present our recent method.In this method, deep brain structures are segmented using Geometric Moment Invariants (GMIs) and MLP neural networks.www.intechopen.com