Establishing a reference range for oligodendroglioma classification using Higuchi dimension analysis

Proceedings of the 9th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BioMed 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 25-28

  Jelinek, Herbert F ^a   Ahammer, Helmut ^b   Matthews, Slade ^c   Succar, Peter ^c   McLachlan, Craig S ^d   Buckland, Michael ^e  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Classification; Cluster analysis; Fractal dimension; Higuchi dimension; Oligodendroglioma

Indexed keywords

BRAIN TUMOURS; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; DIMENSION ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HIGUCHI DIMENSION; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; OPTIMAL TREATMENT; REFERENCE RANGE; SCALE INVARIANCE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMOTHERAPY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; TUMORS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84863666563     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2316/P.2012.764-039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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