Multiresolution-based magnetic resonance (MR) image segmentation has attractedattention for its ability to capture rich information across scales compared with the conventionalsegmentation methods. In this paper, a new scale-space-based segmentation model is presented,where both the intra-scale and inter-scale properties are considered and formulated as two fuzzyenergy functions. Meanwhile, a control parameter is introduced to adjust the contribution of thesimilarity character across scales and the clustering character within the scale. By minimizing thecombined inter/intra energy function, the multiresolution fuzzy segmentation algorithm is derived.Then the coarse to fine leading segmentation is performed automatically and iteratively on a set ofmultiresolution images. The validity of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated by the test imageand pathological MR images. Experiments show that by this approach the segmentation results,especially in the tumor area delineation, are more precise than those of the conventional fuzzy segmentation methods.