{"title":"Using fractal dimension for cancer diagnosis","authors":"R. Dobrescu, F. Taloş, Catalin Vasilescu","doi":"10.1109/VIPROM.2002.1026650","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents an algorithm able to compute and to display the graphic of the distribution of fractal dimensions obtained from microscopic images of malignant tumors in various stages of evolution. Some considerations on the medical interpretation of these histograms are offered too.","PeriodicalId":223771,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on VIPromCom Video/Image Processing and Multimedia Communications","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Symposium on VIPromCom Video/Image Processing and Multimedia Communications","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VIPROM.2002.1026650","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The paper presents an algorithm able to compute and to display the graphic of the distribution of fractal dimensions obtained from microscopic images of malignant tumors in various stages of evolution. Some considerations on the medical interpretation of these histograms are offered too.