Self-similarity analysis applied to 2D breast cancer imaging

Second International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications, ICSNC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 77-82

  Soares, Filipe ^a,b   Andruszkiewicz, Paweł ^a,b   Freire, Mário ^b   Cruz, Paulo ^a   Pereira, Manuela ^b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; MAMMOGRAPHY; X RAY SCREENS;

2D IMAGES; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER IMAGING; EXTRACTION METHOD; GREY SCALE; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; MULTI FRACTALS; SELF-SIMILARITIES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 47849120700     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSNC.2007.76     Document Type: Conference Paper

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