Detection of spicules on mammogram based on skeleton analysis

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 235-245

  Kobatake, Hidefumi ^a   Yoshinaga, Yukiyasu ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

MALIGNANT TUMORS; MAMMOGRAMS; MODIFIED HOUGH TRANSFORMS; SPICULES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0030165210     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.500062     Document Type: Article

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