Fractal analysis of medical images in the irregular regions of interest

8th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, BIBE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Oczeretko, Edward ^a   Borowska, Marta ^b   Kitlas, Agnieszka ^a   Borusiewicz, Andrzej ^b   Sobolewska Siemieniuk, Malgorzata ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b Faculty of Informatics   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; INTENSITY DIFFERENCE; MEDICAL IMAGES; REGION OF INTEREST; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SCALING METHOD;

BIOINFORMATICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; TOMOGRAPHY;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 67549147151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2008.4696830     Document Type: Conference Paper

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