A comparison of similarity measures for digital subtraction radiography

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 151-167

  Lehmann, Thomas ^a   Sovakar, Abhijit ^a   Schmitt, Walter ^b   Repges, Rudolf ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

computer assisted image processing; image similarity; quality measures; subtraction radiography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030951179     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4825(97)83769-9     Document Type: Article

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