Automated classification reveals morphological factors associated with dementia

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 182-190

  Cornforth, David ^a   Jelinek, Herbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automated classification; Dementia; Feature selection; Image processing; Multi fractal analysis

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FEATURE EXTRACTION; FRACTALS; MORPHOLOGY;

AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION; DEMENTIA; MULTI-FRACTAL ANALYSIS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 34548494837     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2006.10.015     Document Type: Article

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