Terahertz image processing methods for biomedical applications

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3751-3754

  Pickwell MacPherson, Emma ^a   Huang, Shengyang ^a   Sun, Yiwen ^a   Kan, Kanis W C ^a   Zhang, Yuan Ting ^a,b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; TERAHERTZ WAVES;

BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; IMAGE PROCESSING - METHODS; MEASUREMENTS OF; SAMPLE STRUCTURE; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CARTILAGE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IONIZING RADIATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CARTILAGE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MATERIALS TESTING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIATION, IONIZING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 61849133954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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