Computer-aided diagnosis of breast cancer on mammograms

Breast Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 228-233

  Doi, Kunio ^a   Giger, Maryellen L ^a   Nishikawa, Robert M ^a   Schmidt, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Breast cancer; Computer; Image processing; Mammography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003909679     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: 18804233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02966511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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