Effect of adaptive-neighborhood contrast enhancement on the extraction of the breast skin-line in mammograms

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 3475-3478

  Sun, Yajie ^a   Suri, Jasjit ^c   Ye, Zhen ^c   Rangayyan, Rangaraj M ^b   Janer, Roman ^a  

^a Fischer Medical Technologies   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MAMMOGRAPHY;

BACKGROUND NOISE; BREAST SKIN-LINE; COMPUTER-AIDED ANALYSIS; HAUSDORFF DISTANCE;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 33846907583     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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