A fuzzy approach to segmenting the breast region in mammograms

Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 474-479

  Wirth, M A ^a   Lyon, J ^a   Nikitenko, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOLOGY; TUMORS;

DETECTION SENSITIVITY; FUZZY SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAMS; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 4544364003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/nafips.2004.1336329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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