Finger tracking for breast palpation quantification using color image features

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3455-3461

  Zeng, Jianchao ^a   Wang, Yue ^b   Freedman, Matthew ^a   Mun, Seong K ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical applications; Breast palpation for cancer detection; Color feature extraction; Color transform; Real time visual feedback; Three dimensional position calculation by stereo vision; Vision based finger motion tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005189973     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601585     Document Type: Article

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