Classification of suspicious regions within ultrawideband radar images of the breast

IET Conference Publications

Volumn , Issue 539 CP, 2008, Pages 60-65

  Conceicao, R C ^a   Byrne, D ^a   O'Halloran, M ^a   Glavin, M ^a   Jones, E ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Breast tumour; Dielectric properties; Shape texture classification; Ultrawideband

Indexed keywords

BREAST IMAGING; BREAST TISSUES; BREAST TUMOUR; DIELECTRIC CONTRASTS; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; FALSE POSITIVE; IMAGE ALGORITHMS; MALIGNANT TISSUES; SHAPE/TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION; TUMOURS; ULTRA WIDEBAND RADARS;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; CERAMIC CAPACITORS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; TEXTURES; TUMORS;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 67649969198     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/cp:20080639     Document Type: Conference Paper

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