Analysis of Textural Features in Medical Images Using Medium-Cost Parallel Computers

Applications of Computer Vision in Medical Image Processing

Volume

Papers from the 1994 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

Although texture plays an important role in the understanding of images, it has been difficult to quantitate because texture analysis is very computationally intensive. Quantitative analysis of image texture is important because it is not subjective, and does not have the potential to vary from one observation to another as does qualitative analysis.