Wavelet-Based 3D Reconstruction of Microcalcification Clusters from Two Mammographic Views: New Evidence That Fractal Tumors Are Malignant and Euclidean Tumors Are Benign

Kendra A. Batchelder; Aaron B. Tanenbaum; Seth Albert; Lyne Guimond; Pierre Kestener; Alain Arneodo; Andre Khalil

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0107580

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Wavelet-Based 3D Reconstruction of Microcalcification Clusters from Two Mammographic Views: New Evidence That Fractal Tumors Are Malignant and Euclidean Tumors Are Benign

Kendra A. Batchelder,

Affiliations CompuMAINE Lab, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America, Institute for Molecular Biophysics, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America
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Aaron B. Tanenbaum,

Affiliations CompuMAINE Lab, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America, Institute for Molecular Biophysics, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America
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Seth Albert,

Affiliations CompuMAINE Lab, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America, Institute for Molecular Biophysics, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America
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Lyne Guimond,

Affiliations CompuMAINE Lab, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America, Institute for Molecular Biophysics, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America
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Pierre Kestener,

Affiliation Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Alain Arneodo,

Affiliations Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, France, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
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Andre Khalil

* E-mail: andre.khalil@maine.edu

Affiliations CompuMAINE Lab, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America, Institute for Molecular Biophysics, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America
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Wavelet-Based 3D Reconstruction of Microcalcification Clusters from Two Mammographic Views: New Evidence That Fractal Tumors Are Malignant and Euclidean Tumors Are Benign

Kendra A. Batchelder,
Aaron B. Tanenbaum,
Seth Albert,
Lyne Guimond,
Pierre Kestener,
Alain Arneodo,
Andre Khalil

Published: September 15, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0107580

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