Quantitative classification of breast tumors in digitized mammograms

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1337-1345

  Pohlman, Scott ^a   Powell, Kimerly A ^b   Obuchowski, Nancy A ^b   Chilcote, William A ^b   Grundfest Broniatowski, Sharon ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL DIMENSION; MAMMOGRAPHY; X RAY SCREENS;

ADAPTIVE REGION GROWING; CLASSIFICATION MODELS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITIZED MAMMOGRAMS; FALSE NEGATIVE RATE; MORPHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTORS; QUANTITATIVE CLASSIFICATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

TUMORS;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0029811391     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597707     Document Type: Article

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