Wavelet representations for monitoring changes in teeth imaged with digital imaging fiber-optic transillumination

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 653-663

  Keem, Sunguk ^a   Elbaum, Marek ^b  

^a Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

^b Electro Optical Sciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

DIFOTI; Monitoring; Pattern matching; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DENTISTRY; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

COMPUTER CONTROLLED IMAGE ACQUISITION; DIGITAL IMAGING FIBER OPTIC TRANSILLUMINATION; PATTERN MATCHING; WAVELETS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTAL CARIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENAMEL; FIBER OPTICS; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; IONIZING RADIATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME; TOOTH; TOOTH DISEASE; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY FILM;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL ENAMEL; FIBER OPTICS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTOGRAPHY; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOGRAPHY, DENTAL; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOOTH; TOOTH DEMINERALIZATION; TRANSILLUMINATION; X-RAY FILM;

EID: 0031240188     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.640756     Document Type: Article

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