Multiresolution statistical analysis of high-resolution digital mammograms

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 503-515

  Heine, John J ^a   Deans, Stanley R ^a   Kent Cullers, D ^a   Stauduhar, Richard ^a   Clarke, Laurence P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mammography; Multiresolution; Statistical; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST; BREAST DISEASE; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROBABILITY;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE;

MAMMOGRAMS; MULTIRESOLUTION STATISTICAL METHOD;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0031240186     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.640740     Document Type: Article

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