A-contrario detectability of spots in textured backgrounds

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 313-337

  Grosjean, Bénédicte ^a   Moisan, Lionel ^b  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

A contrario; Colored noise process; Detection; Fractional Brownian motion; Mammography; Powerlaw; Texture

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTIUSER DETECTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TEXTURES; WHITE NOISE;

A-CONTRARIO; COLORED NOISE PROCESS; DETECTION; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; POWERLAW; TEXTURE;

FILMS;

EID: 60449095768     PISSN: 09249907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10851-008-0111-4     Document Type: Article

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