Thermal Infrared Imaging in Early Breast Cancer Detection - A Survey of Recent Research

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1109-1112

  Qi, Hairong ^a   Diakides, Nicholas A ^b  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b Advanced Concepts Analysis Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS; X RAYS;

THERMAL INFRARED (TIR) IMAGING; TIME DELAY INTEGRATION (TDI);

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 1542302396     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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