An image visualization tool in mammography

Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-73

  Sakellaropoulos, P ^a   Costaridou, L ^a   Panayiotakis, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Image processing; Mammography; Medical image display; Visualization software

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 80052077691     PISSN: 14639238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/146392399298528     Document Type: Article

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