Testing a wavelet based noise reduction method using computer-simulated mammograms

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue II, 2005, Pages 969-978

  Hoeschen, Christoph ^a   Tischenko, Oleg ^a   Dance, David R ^b   Hunt, Roger A ^b   Maidment, Andrew D A ^c   Bakic, Predrag R ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; TUMORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ANATOMICAL NOISE; BREAST CANCER; MAMMOGRAMS; PRIMARY RADIATIONS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844528870     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595806     Document Type: Conference Paper

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