Using tissue texture surrounding calcification clusters to predict benign vs malignant outcomes

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 549-555

  Thiele, David L ^a   Kimme Smith, Carolyn ^b   Johnson, Timothy D ^c   McCombs, Marie ^b   Bassett, Lawrence W ^b  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

computer aided diagnosis; mammography; texture analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; BIOPSY; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FRACTALS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE TEXTURE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TEXTURES; TISSUE;

CLUSTERED MICROCALCIFICATIONS; COMPUTER TEXTURE ANALYSIS; GRAY-LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIX; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSIES; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CALCIFICATION; CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TUMOR BIOPSY;

EID: 0029921336     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597901     Document Type: Article

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