Determining and classifying the region of interest in ultrasonic images of the breast using neural networks

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-66

  Buller, Danuta ^a   Buller, Andrzej ^b   Innocent, Peter R ^c   Pawlak, Waldemar ^b  

^a City Hospital   (Poland)

^b GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedical computing; Diagnosis; Neural nets; Sonomammograms; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

SONOMAMMOGRAMS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BREAST CANCER; CLASSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0030087608     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0933-3657(95)00020-8     Document Type: Article

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