Wavelet transform of breast tissue fluorescence spectra: A technique for diagnosis of tumors

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 154-161

  Agarwal, Nidhi ^a   Gupta, Sharad ^a   Bhawna, ^a   Pradhan, Asima ^a   Vishwanathan, K ^b,c   Panigrahi, Prasanta K ^b,c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Benign; Daubechies wavelets; Discrete wavelet transform (DWT); Haar basis; Laser; Low pass coefficients; Normal; Polarized fluorescence spectra; Power spectrum; Tumor

Indexed keywords

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; TISSUE; TUMORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BREAST TISSUE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; LASER SPECTROSCOPY;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0242409857     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.813318     Document Type: Article

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