An analysis of local feature extraction in digital mammography

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1547-1554

  Marchette, David J ^a   Lorey, Richard A ^a   Priebe, Carey E ^b  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary gating; Feature extraction; Image processing; Local features

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BOUNDARY GATING; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0031232604     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(96)00173-2     Document Type: Article

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