Detection of microcalcifications in digital mammograms using the dual-tree complex wavelet transform

Engineering Intelligent Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-63

  Alarcon Aquino, V ^a   Starostenko, O ^a   Ramirez Cortes, J M ^b   Rosas Romero, R ^a   Rodriguez Asomoza, J ^a   Paz Luna, O J ^a   Vazquez Munoz K ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Dual tree complex wavelet transforms; Mammography; MIAS database; Microcalcifications; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORMS; DE-NOISING ALGORITHM; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS; DUAL-TREE COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORM; DUAL-TREE COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORMS; HIGH FREQUENCY; IMAGE DE-NOISING; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTIMAL THRESHOLD; PHASE INFORMATION; SHIFT INVARIANCE; SUB-BANDS; THRESHOLDING ALGORITHMS; TOP-HAT FILTERING; WAVELET TRANSFORMATIONS;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION; X RAY SCREENS;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 75149181318     PISSN: 14728915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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