Automatic tissue classification for high-resolution breast CT images based on bilateral filtering

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7962, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Yang, Xiaofeng ^a   Sechopoulos, Ioannis ^a,b   Fei, Baowei ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

bias correction; breast cancer; Breast CT; breast tissue classification; fuzzy C Mean classification; image classification; multiscale filter

Indexed keywords

BIAS CORRECTION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CT; BREAST TISSUE CLASSIFICATION; FUZZY C MEAN; MULTISCALE FILTER;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; TISSUE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 79958015524     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.877881     Document Type: Conference Paper

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