Automatic on-line electronic portal image analysis with a wavelet-based edge detector

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 321-329

  Petrascu, O ^a   Bel, A ^a   Linthout, N ^a   Verellen, D ^a   Soete, G ^a   Storme, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Electronic portal imaging; Image analysis; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; ERRORS; PHANTOMS; STATISTICS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS TOOLS; AUTOMATIC PROCEDURES; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGES; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING; MULTISCALE EDGE DETECTION; ON-LINE SETUP CORRECTION; WAVELET;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034005932     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598834     Document Type: Article

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