Detection of cancerous masses for screening mammography using discrete wavelet transform-based multiresolution Markov random field

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 2 SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 18-23

  Zheng, Lei ^a   Chan, Andrew K ^a   McCord, Gary ^a   Wu, Steve ^a   Liu, J Steve ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; TISSUE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS (DWT); MULTIRESOLUTION MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS (MMRF);

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; MARKOV CHAINS; MASS SCREENING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0032588404     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03168746     Document Type: Article

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