Point spread function based classification of regions for linear digital tomosynthesis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages

  Israni, Kenny ^a   Avinash, Gopal ^b   Li, Baojun ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Background 10.1117 12.709493; Blur; Classification; In focus; Out of focus; Point spread function; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

BLUR; IMAGING VOLUMES; LINEAR DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 35148898327     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709493     Document Type: Conference Paper

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