Mammographic Image Denoising and Enhancement Using the Anscombe Transformation, Adaptive Wiener Filtering, and the Modulation Transfer Function

Larissa Cristina dos Santos Romualdo1, Marcelo A. C. Vieira1, Homero Schiabel1, Nelson Delfino Davila Mascarenhas2, Lucas R. Borges1
1Electrical Engineering Department, University of São Paulo, USP, São Carlos, Brazil
2Computer Department, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil

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