Computerized identification of suspicious regions for masses in digitized mammograms

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 146-153

  Chang, Yuan Hsiang ^a   Zheng, Bin ^a   Gur, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; computer aided diagnosis; mammography; mass detection; medical image processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0029939895     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-199603000-00005     Document Type: Article

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