A review of wavelets in biomedical applications

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 626-638

  Unser, Michael ^a,b   Aldroubi, Akram ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MULTIRESOLUTION METHODS; PREWHITENING MULTISCALE MATCHED FILTER;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 0030127507     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.488704     Document Type: Article

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