Estimation of fractal dimension in radiographs

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 585-594

  Veenland, J F ^a   Grashuis, J L ^a   Van Der Meer, F ^a   Beckers, A L D ^a   Gelsema, E S ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

fractal dimension; modulation transfer function; radiographs; texture analysis

Indexed keywords

IMAGE TEXTURE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODULATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; POWER SPECTRUM; QUANTUM NOISE; RADIOGRAPHY; TEXTURES;

COMPUTER GENERATED; ESTIMATION METHODS; EXPOSURE CONDITIONS; FILM-GRAIN NOISE; FRACTAL DIMENSION ESTIMATION; POWER SPECTRUM METHOD; RADIOGRAPHS; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029876219     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597816     Document Type: Article

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