Clinical test of RULES (RULES: Radiofrequency Ultrasonic Local Estimators)

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 2173-2176

  Masotti, L ^a   Biagi, E ^a   Granchi, S ^a   Breschi, L ^a   Magrini, E ^a   Di Lorenzo, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast characterization; Breast tumor detection; Local spectral analysis; Radiofrequency signal, signal processing; Time frequency analysis; Ultrasound; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

BREAST CHARACTERIZATION; BREAST TUMOR DETECTION; LOCAL SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNAL; TIME-FREQUENCIES; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BANDWIDTH; FIR FILTERS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TISSUE; TUMORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 21644459130     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2004.1418269     Document Type: Conference Paper

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