Computer-aided detection of mammographic microcalcifications: Pattern recognition with an artificial neural network

Medical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 1555-1567

  Chan, Heang Ping ^a   Lo, Shih Chung B ^a   Sahiner, Berkman ^a   Lam, Kwok Leung ^a   Helvie, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

artificial neural; computer aided diagnosis; mammography; microcalcification; network; receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; X RAY SCREENS;

AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLUSTERED MICROCALCIFICATIONS; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; CONVOLUTION NEURAL NETWORK; GENERALIZATION CAPABILITY; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0028849805     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597428     Document Type: Article

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