A representation and classification scheme for tree-like structures in medical images: An application on branching pattern analysis of ductal trees in x-ray galactograms

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6144 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Megalooikonomou, Vasileios ^a   Kontos, Despina ^a   Danglemaier, Joseph ^a   Javadi, Ailar ^a   Bakic, Predrag R ^b   Maidment, Andrew D A ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching pattern analysis; Characterization; Classification; Tree like structures; X ray galactograms

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DATA MINING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PATHOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOPOLOGY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CANONICAL FORM; ENCODING TECHNIQUES; STRING ENCODING; X-RAY GALACTOGRAMS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745141918     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.651426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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