Evaluating wavelet compression in microcalcification detection in mammography

International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, DSP

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 535-538

  Kocsis, O ^a   Castaridou, L ^a   Varaki, L ^a   Likaki, E ^a   Kalogeivpoulou, C ^a   Panayiotakis, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); DATA COMPRESSION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVELET ANALYSIS; X RAY SCREENS;

COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL DATABASE FOR SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHIES; IMAGE QUALITY PARAMETERS; LOW COMPRESSION RATIOS; MICROCALCIFICATION DETECTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS ANALYSIS; TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; WAVELET BASED IMAGE COMPRESSION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84948679895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDSP.2002.1028145     Document Type: Conference Paper

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