Preliminary investigations of chest surface identification algorithms for breast cancer detection

Proceeedings of The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, ICUWB 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 195-198

  Helbig, M ^a   Hein, M A ^a   Schwarz, U ^a   Sachs, J ^a  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boundary scattering transform; Breast cancer detection; Surface detection; UWB imaging

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; SCANNING; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BOUNDARY SCATTERING TRANSFORM; BOUNDARY SCATTERING TRANSFORMS; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; BREAST CANCER DETECTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; PLANAR SCANNING; SENSING AND IMAGING; SURFACE DETECTION; SURFACE IDENTIFICATIONS; TEST OBJECTS; UWB IMAGING; WIDE BANDS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 56749117865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUWB.2008.4653384     Document Type: Conference Paper

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