Estimating the mutual information between bilateral breast in thermograms using nonparametric windows

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 959-967

  Etehadtavakol, M ^a,d   Ng, E Y K ^b   Lucas, Caro ^c   Sadri, S ^d   Gheissari, N ^d  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^d ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Breast; Mutual information; Non parametric windows; Thermogram

Indexed keywords

BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84856213748     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-010-9516-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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