On the statistical nature of mammograms

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2254-2265

  Heine, John J ^a   Deans, Stanley R ^a,b   Velthuizen, Robert P ^a   Clarke, Laurence P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; Fractal; Self similarity; Statistical modeling

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; MAMMOGRAPHY; X RAY SCREENS;

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITIZED MAMMOGRAMS; LINEAR FILTERING; PARAMETRIC DESCRIPTION; PARAMETRIC METHOD; SELF-SIMILARITIES; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICAL MODELING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FILTER; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINEAR SYSTEM; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; RADIODENSITOMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032742627     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598739     Document Type: Article

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