A representation for mammographic image processing

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-18

  Highnam, Ralph ^a   Brady, Michael ^a   Shepstone, Basil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image enhancement and restoration; Image simulation; Mammography; Surface representation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY;

BREAST DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0030088728     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-8415(01)80002-5     Document Type: Article

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