Progress toward a quantitative scale for describing radiodensity in mammographic images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5116 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 553-560

  Tromans, Christopher ^a   Brady, Michael ^a   Van De Sompel, Dominique ^a   Lorenzon, Michele ^b   Bazzocchi, Massimo ^b   Zuiani, Chiara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIUM COMPOUNDS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PIXELS; TISSUE;

BREAST TISSUES; EQUIVALENT THICKNESS; IMAGE RECEPTORS; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; NORMALISATION; OPTIMISATIONS; REFERENCE MATERIAL; SCATTERING PHENOMENON;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 50949104543     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70538-3_77     Document Type: Conference Paper

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