Improved infrared thermography based image construction for biomedical applications using Markov Chain Monte Carlo method

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5360-5363

  Umadevi, V ^a   Suresh, S ^a   Raghavan, S V ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; HEAT TRANSFER; MARKOV PROCESSES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); TUMORS;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; IMAGE CONSTRUCTION; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIPLE PARAMETERS; RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER MODELING; SCANNING TECHNIQUES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 77950977589     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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