A wavelet-based mammographic image denoising and enhancement with homomorphic filtering

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 993-1002

  Gorgel, Pelin ^a   Sertbas, Ahmet ^a   Ucan, Osman N ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Image denoising; Image enhancement; Mammography; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL FILTERING; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILTER; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HOMOMORPHIC FILTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; TURKEY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649330864     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-009-9316-3     Document Type: Article

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