Skin surface removal on breast microwave imagery using wavelet multiscale products

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6143 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Flores Tapia, Daniel ^a   Thomas, Gabriel ^a   Pistorius, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomedical Image Processing; Cancer Detection; Clutter Removal; Microwave Imagery; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MICROWAVES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TUMORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; CANCER DETECTION; CLUTTER REMOVAL; MICROWAVE IMAGERY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745356950     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.659362     Document Type: Conference Paper

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