Radiologists' ability to discriminate computer-detected true and false positives from an automated scheme for the detection of clustered microcalcifications on digital mammograms

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3036, Issue , 1997, Pages 198-204

  Nishikawa, Robert M ^a   Wolverton, Dulcy E ^a   Schmidt, Robert A ^a   Papaioannou, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Computer aided diagnosis; Detection; Digital mammography; False positives; Microcalcifications

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BREAST CANCER; DETECTION; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVES; MICROCALCIFICATIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0005000678     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.271293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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