Classifying Mammographic Lesions Using Computerized Image Analysis

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 664-669

  Kilday, Judy ^a   Palmieri, Francesco ^a   Fox, Martin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

CANCER; COMPUTERIZED IMAGE ANALYSIS; CYSTS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FIBROADENOMAS; INTERACTIVE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHIC LESIONS; TUMOR BOUNDARY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0027850153     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.251116     Document Type: Article

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