Analysis of breast thermograms based on statistical image features and hybrid fuzzy classification

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5358 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2008, Pages 753-762

  Schaefer, Gerald ^a   Nakashima, Tomoharu ^b   Zavisek, Michal ^c  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; DATA SETS; FUZZY CLASSIFICATION; FUZZY RULE BASED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL THERMOGRAPHY; RULE BASE; SET OF RULES; STATISTICAL FEATURES; STATISTICAL IMAGES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; TUMORS;

THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

EID: 68649118579     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89639-5_72     Document Type: Conference Paper

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