Fractal analysis in the detection of colonic cancer images

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 54-58

  Esgiar, Abdelrahim Nasser ^b   Naguib, Raouf N G ^a,c   Sharif, Bayan S ^a,b   Bennett, Mark K ^b,d   Murray, Alan ^b,d  

^a IEEE

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^d FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Classification; Colon; Fractal analysis; Image analysis; Quantitative pathology; Texture

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FRACTALS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; TUMORS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

QUANTITATIVE PATHOLOGY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLON TUMOR; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FRACTALS; HUMANS;

EID: 0036489323     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4233.992163     Document Type: Article

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