Separable and non-separable discrete wavelet transform based texture features and image classification of breast thermograms

Infrared Physics and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue , 2013, Pages 274-286

  Etehadtavakol, Mahnaz ^a   Ng, E Y K ^b   Chandran, Vinod ^c   Rabbani, Hossien ^a,d  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Breast Thermograms; Discrete Wavelet Transform; Image Classification; Principle Component Analysis; Texture Features

Indexed keywords

2-D DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; ADA BOOST CLASSIFIERS; BREAST THERMOGRAMS; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; DIFFERENT WAVELETS; INFRA-RED CAMERAS; PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TEXTURE FEATURES;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; IMAGE TEXTURE; MEDICAL IMAGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; TEXTURES; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84886298211     PISSN: 13504495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infrared.2013.08.009     Document Type: Article

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