Breast cancer detection from thermal images using bispectral invariant features

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue , 2013, Pages 21-36

  Etehadtavakol, Mahnaz ^a   Chandran, Vinod ^b   Ng, E Y K ^c   Kafieh, Raheleh ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adaboost; Breast cancer; Higher order spectra; Invariant; Thermal images

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; FUZZY C MEANS CLUSTERING; HIGHER ORDER SPECTRUM; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; INVARIANT; THERMAL IMAGES;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; DISEASES; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE TEXTURE; INFRARED IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; TEXTURES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84876669188     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2013.03.001     Document Type: Article

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