Automatic tuning of MST segmentation of mammograms for registration and mass detection algorithms

DICTA 2009 - Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 400-407

  Bajger, Mariusz ^a   Ma, Fei ^a   Bottema, Murk J ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TUNING; ENTROPY MEASURE; GAUSSIANS; MASS DETECTION; MINIMUM SPANNING TREES; SCREENING MAMMOGRAM; STATE OF THE ART;

IMAGE PROCESSING; SIGNAL DETECTION; TUNING; X RAY SCREENS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77950333239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DICTA.2009.72     Document Type: Conference Paper

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