Tissue characterization using the continuous wavelet transform Part II: Application on breast RF data

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 364-373

  Georgiou, Georgia ^b   Cohen, Fernand S ^a,c   Piccoli, Catherine W ^d   Forsberg, Flemming ^a,d   Goldberg, Barry B ^d  

^a IEEE

^b EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE   (Netherlands)

^c Drexel University   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ONCOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION;

BREAST TISSUE; CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORMS; FIBROADENOMA; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BREAST TUMOR; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; HUMAN; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; HUMANS; RADIO WAVES; ROC CURVE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 0035263373     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.911719     Document Type: Article

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