Breast density segmentation: A comparison of clustering and region based techniques

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

Volumn 5116 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 9-16

  Torrent, A ^a   Bardera, A ^a   Oliver, A ^a   Freixenet, J ^a   Boada, I ^a   Feixes, M ^a   Marti R ^a   Llado X ^a   Pont, J ^b   Perez E ^b   Pedraza, S ^b   Marti J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL JOSEP TRUETA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; FLOW OF SOLIDS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; REGION BASED; REGION INFORMATION;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 50949132005     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70538-3_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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