Techniques in fractal analysis and their applications in brain MRI

Medical Imaging Systems Technology: Analysis and Computational Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 63-86

  Iftekharuddin, Khan M ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Fractional brownian motion; Image recognition; MRI, brain tumor detection

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; FRACTAL DIMENSION; IMAGE RECOGNITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TUMORS;

BRAIN TUMOR DETECTIONS; DEGREE OF NOISE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; FRACTAL-BASED ALGORITHMS; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; PIXEL INTENSITIES; TRIANGULAR PRISM;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84967496038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812705785_0003     Document Type: Chapter

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