A wavelet-based spatially adaptive method for mammographic contrast enhancement

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 787-803

  Sakellaropoulos, P ^a   Costaridou, L ^a   Panayiotakis, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE QUALITY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

NOISE AMPLIFICATIONS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; NOISE; NOISE STANDARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0037459551     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/6/307     Document Type: Article

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