Detection of microcalcification clusters in mammograms using a difference of optimized Gaussian filters

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3656 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 998-1005

  Oporto Díaz, Samuel ^a   Hernández Cisneros, Rolando ^b   Terashima Marín, Hugo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE INGENIERÍA   (Peru)

^b SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTIMIZATION;

BREAST CANCER; MAMMOGRAMS; MICROCALCIFICATIONS;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 33645986429     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11559573_121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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