Thickness correction of mammographic images by means of a global parameter model of the compressed breast

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 799-806

  Snoeren, Peter R ^a   Karssemeijer, Nico ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; Image processing; Peripheral enhancement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; X RAYS;

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; PERIPHERAL ENHANCEMENT; THICKNESS CORRECTION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREAST; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 3142729244     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.827477     Document Type: Article

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