Ant colony classification for analysis of image features in breast thermograms

Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, IPCV 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 881-885

  Schaefer, Gerald ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimisation; Breast cancer diagnosis; Classification; Thermography

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONIES; ANT COLONY OPTIMISATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; IMAGE FEATURES; MEDICAL THERMOGRAPHY; RULE BASE; STATISTICAL IMAGES;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER VISION; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; TEMPERATURE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TISSUE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84864945646     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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