Investigation of PET/MRI image fusion schemes for enhanced breast cancer diagnosis

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 3774-3780

  Baum, Karl G ^a,b   Schmidt, Evan ^b,c   Rafferty, Kimberly ^b   Helguera, Maria ^a,b   Feiglin, David H ^d   Krol, Andrzej ^a  

^a IEEE

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Honeoye Falls Lima High School   (United States)

^d Honeoye Falls Lima High School ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE FUSION;

ANATOMICAL IMAGES; BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSES; BREAST IMAGES; COLOR TABLES; DATA SETS; DIAGNOSTIC PERFORMANCES; EASE OF USES; FUNCTIONAL IMAGES; FUSION SCHEMES; FUSION TECHNIQUES; REGISTERED IMAGES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 48349118048     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436944     Document Type: Conference Paper

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