Application of multifractal analysis on medical images

WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1561-1572

  Andjelkovic, Jelena ^a   Zivic, Natasha ^b   Reljin, Branimir ^c   Celebic, Vladimir ^a   Salom, Iva ^a  

^a MIHAJLO PUPIN INSTITUTE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^c Faculty of Electrical Engineering   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Carcinomas; FracLab; FracLac; Fractals; H lder exponent; Medical images; Multifractals

Indexed keywords

HOLMIUM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

CARCINOMAS; FRACLAB; FRACLAC; MEDICAL IMAGES; MULTIFRACTALS;

FRACTALS;

EID: 59549094192     PISSN: 17900832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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