Interactive selective and adaptive clustering for detection of microcalcifications in mammograms

Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 224-232

  Estevez, Leonardo ^a   Kehtarnavaz, Nasser ^b   Wendt III, Richard ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ONCOLOGY; RADIOLOGY;

ADAPTIVE CLUSTERING; INTERACTIVE SELECTIVE CLUSTERING; MAMMOGRAMS; MICROCALCIFICATIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0030260214     PISSN: 10512004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dspr.1996.0025     Document Type: Article

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