An application of topological median filters on detection and clustering of microcalcifications in digital mammograms

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Cihan, Ibrahim Kivanç ^a   Şenel, Hakan Güray ^b  

^a Havelsan AS   (Turkey)

^b ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Microcalcification; Subtractive clustering; Top hat transform; Topological median filters

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL FILTERS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; TOPOLOGY; TUMORS;

MICROCALCIFICATION; SUBTRACTIVE CLUSTERING; TOP-HAT TRANSFORM; TOPOLOGICAL MEDIAN FILTERS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947689134     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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