Literature listing

 

Neural networks in image processing

 

Many of the articles listed here are reviewed in a paper that has appeared in Pattern Recognition in 2002:
M. Egmont-Petersen, D. de Ridder, H. Handels. "Image processing with neural networks - a review," Pattern Recognition, Vol. 35, No. 10, pp. 2279-2301, 2002.

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The following list contains references to journal articles on neural networks in image processing:

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