Denoising and enhancing digital mammographic images for visual screening

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 243-254

  Scharcanski, Jacob ^a   Jung, Cláudio Rosito ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Contrast equalization; Image denoising; Image enhancement; Mammography; Multiresolution analysis; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST EQUALIZATION; IMAGE DENOISING; MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS; WAVELETS;

MAMMOGRAPHY; SCREENING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 33746332964     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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