Mass segmentation using a pattern matching approach with a mutual information based metric

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 131, Issue , 2005, Pages 123-130

  Oliver, Arnau ^a   Freixenet, Jordi ^a   Martí, Joan ^a   Peracaula, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Mammography; Template matching

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; MAMMOGRAPHY; TEMPLATE MATCHING; X RAY SCREENS;

COMPUTER-AIDED SYSTEMS; IMAGES SEGMENTATIONS; MASS SEGMENTATION; MATCHING SCHEME; MODEL-BASED SEGMENTATION; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; PATTERN-MATCHING; PERFORMANCE; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SIMILARITY METRICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 42949155388     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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