Detecting breast cancer from thermal infrared images by asymmetry analysis

Medical Devices and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 27-1-27-14

  Qi, Hairong ^a   Kuruganti, Phani Teja ^b   Snyder, Wesley E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

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