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Digital Processing of Diagnostic Images

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Advances in Biomedical Sensing, Measurements, Instrumentation and Systems

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 55))

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In the Chapter different measurement systems for medical diagnosis are described. Different kinds of diagnostic images are exploited: ultrasound images for carotid analysis, epiluminescence microscopy (ELM) images for skin lesion diagnosis, and mammograms for breast cancer diagnosis. Thanks to the difference in the nature of images and in the investigated quantities the obtainable suggestions can be useful for a wide field of image processing for medical parameter evaluation.

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    Domenico Capriglione, Luigi Ferrigno & Francesco Tortorella

  2. DIIIE Univeristy of Salerno, via ponte don Melillo, 84084, Fisciano, (SA), Italy

    Consolatina Liguori, Alfredo Paolillo & Paolo Sommella

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Capriglione, D., Ferrigno, L., Liguori, C., Paolillo, A., Sommella, P., Tortorella, F. (2010). Digital Processing of Diagnostic Images. In: Mukhopadhyay, S.C., Lay-Ekuakille, A. (eds) Advances in Biomedical Sensing, Measurements, Instrumentation and Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 55. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05167-8_12

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