On Techniques for Detecting Circumscribed Masses in Mammograms

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 377-386

  Lai, Shuk Mei ^a   Li, Xiaobo ^a   Bischof, Walter F ^b  

^a Department of Computing Science University of Alberta ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING--ENHANCEMENT; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

BREAST TUMOR DETECTION; FALSE ALARM TESTS; IMAGE MATCHING; MAMMOGRAM IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDIAN FILTERS; X-RAY CHEST IMAGING;

RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0024944225     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.41491     Document Type: Article

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