Fractal analysis of dental radiographic images in the irregular regions of interest

Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing

Volumn 69, Issue , 2010, Pages 191-199

  Oczeretko, Edward ^a   Borowska, Marta ^a   Szarmach, Izabela ^b   Kitlas, Agnieszka ^a   Szarmach, Janusz ^b   Radwański, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; INTENSITY DIFFERENCE; MEDICAL IMAGES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; REGION OF INTEREST; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SCALING METHOD;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 79952984209     PISSN: 18675662     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13105-9_20     Document Type: Article

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