Thickness-equalization processing for mammographic images

Radiology

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 564-568

  Byng, Jeffrey W ^a   Critten, Jeffrey P ^a   Yaffe, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast radiography, technology; Images, digitization; Images, display; Images, processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030956370     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.203.2.9114122     Document Type: Article

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