Classifying mammographic mass shapes using the wavelet transform modulus-maxima method

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1170-1177

  Bruce, Lori Mann ^a   Adhami, Reza R ^a  

^a University of Nevada Las Vegas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS (LDA); WAVELET TRANSFORM MODULUS-MAXIMA METHOD;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

BREAST TUMOR; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 0033233283     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.819326     Document Type: Article

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