Breast peripheral area correction in digital mammograms

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue , 2014, Pages 32-40

  Tortajada, Meritxell ^a   Oliver, Arnau ^a   Martí, Robert ^a   Ganau, Sergi ^b   Tortajada, Lidia ^b   Sentís, Melcior ^b   Freixenet, Jordi ^a   Zwiggelaar, Reyer ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b Servicio de Cirugía General Y Aparato Digestivo   (Spain)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer assisted diagnosis; Image processing; Image quality; Mammography; Radiographic image enhancement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION; X RAY SCREENS;

AUTOMATIC METHOD; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; MULTIPLICATIVE MODEL; PERIPHERAL ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; VISUAL COMPARISON;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; PECTORAL MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84900829199     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: 18790534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2014.03.010     Document Type: Article

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