Towards the detection of microcalcifications on mammograms through multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis

IEEE Pacific RIM Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 677-681

  Soares, Filipe ^a,b   Freire, Mário M ^a   Pereira, Manuela ^a   Janela, Filipe ^b   Seabra, João ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; GREY SCALE IMAGES; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; MEDICAL IMAGES; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; MULTI FRACTALS; MULTIFRACTAL DETRENDED FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS; NATURAL IMAGES; SELF-SIMILARITIES; TWO-DIMENSIONALITY;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); FEATURE EXTRACTION; FRACTALS; MAMMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

X RAY SCREENS;

EID: 74049161659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PACRIM.2009.5291288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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