Simple fractal method of assessment of histological images for application in medical diagnostics

Nonlinear Biomedical Physics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Klonowski, Wlodzimierz ^a   Stepien, Robert ^a   Stepien, Pawel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 78649715713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17534631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1753-4631-4-7     Document Type: Article

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