Characterization of mammary gland tissue using joint estimators of Minkowski functionals

Image Analysis and Stereology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-22

  Mattfeldt, Torsten ^a   Meschenmoser, Daniel ^a   Pantle, Ursa ^a   Schmidt, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymptotic covariance matrix; Breast cancer; Mammary carcinoma; Mammary gland tissue; Minkowski functionals; Random closed set; Specific intrinsic volumes

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957009181     PISSN: 15803139     EISSN: 18545165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5566/ias.v26.p13-22     Document Type: Article

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