Innovation modelling and wavelet analysis of fractal processes in bio-imaging

2008 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, Proceedings, ISBI

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1501-1504

  Tafti, Pouya Dehghani ^a   Van De Ville, Dimitri ^a   Unser, Michael ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fractional Brownian motion; Hurst exponent estimation; Non separable wavelets; Whitening

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; LAPLACE EQUATION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; HURST EXPONENT ESTIMATION; NON-SEPARABLE WAVELETS; WHITENING;

FRACTALS;

EID: 51049096331     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2008.4541293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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