The application of fractal analysis to mammographic tissue classification

Cancer Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 2-3, 1994, Pages 183-189

  Priebe, Carey E ^a   Solka, Jeffrey L ^a   Lorey, Richard A ^a   Rogers, George W ^a   Poston, Wendy L ^a   Kallergi, Maria ^b   Oian, Wei ^b   Clarke, Laurence P ^b   Clark, Robert A ^b  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational statistics; Computer assisted diagnosis; Feature extraction; Fractals; Pattern recognition; Probability density function; Wolfe patterns

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARENCHYMA; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS; TISSUE TYPES; TISSUE TYPING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0028269213     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(94)90101-5     Document Type: Article

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