Entropy-based time window for artifact removal in UWB imaging of breast cancer detection

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 585-588

  Zhi, Wanjun ^a   Chin, Francois ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; Biomedical imaging; Entropy; Microwave imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ENTROPY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) DATA; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) IMAGING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33749382085     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2006.876346     Document Type: Article

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