Use of wavelet analysis for contrast enhancement in mammography

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 43, Issue , 1997, Pages 502-506

  Sakellaropoulos, P ^a   Costaridou, L ^a   Cavouras, D ^b   Bezerianos, A ^a   Panayiotakis, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b TEI Athens ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST PHANTOM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EDGE LOCATION; EDGE PRESERVATIONS; GRADIENT MAGNITUDE; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; MULTI-SCALE; NON LINEAR;

WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031319263     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-887-8-502     Document Type: Conference Paper

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