Tumor detection in digitized mammograms by image texture analysis

Optical Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 209-216

  Pfisterer, R ^a   Aghdasi, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Detection; Hexagonal wavelets; Laws texture masks; Lifting schemes; Mammograms; Masses; Texture

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FILTERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TUMORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ADAPTIVE HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; IMAGE TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035247062     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1338998     Document Type: Article

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