Fractal modeling of mammograms based on mean and variance for the detection of microcalcifications

Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, ICCIMA 2007

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 334-338

  Sankar, Deepa ^a   Thomas, Tessamma ^a  

^a Department of Physics   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; TISSUE;

FRACTAL MODELING; IMAGE BLOCKS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 41149127815     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCIMA.2007.200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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