Detection of masses in mammograms using enhanced multilevel-thresholding segmentation and region selection based on rank

Proceedings of the 5th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BioMED 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 370-375

  Rojas Dominguez A ^a   Nandi, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast masses; Mammography; Medical image processing; Tumor detection

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST MASSES; DISTINCT STRUCTURES; LOCAL SCALING; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; MULTIPLE THRESHOLDS; PRE-PROCESSING; RANKING SYSTEMS; SEGMENTED REGIONS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; THRESHOLDING SEGMENTATIONS; TUMOR DETECTION;

WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

EID: 56149103902     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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