Increasing the speed of medical image processing in MatLab®

Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Bister, Michel ^a   Yap, C S ^a   Ng, K H ^b   Tok, C H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Image processing; MatLab ; Optimisation; Specialisation; Vectorisation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 57149125964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18235530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2349/biij.3.1.e9     Document Type: Article

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