On Digital Mammogram Segmentation and Microcalcification Detection Using Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis

Graphical Models and Image Processing

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 349-364

  Chen, C H ^a   Lee, G G ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BAYESIAN LEARNING PARADIGM; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAM SEGMENTATION; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (EM) ALGORITHM; MICROCALCIFICATION DETECTION; MULTIRESOLUTION WAVELET ANALYSIS (MWA); NONSTATIONARY GAUSSIAN MARKOV RANDOM FIELD (GMRF);

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031223910     PISSN: 10773169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gmip.1997.0443     Document Type: Article

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