Construction and application of hierarchical decision tree for classification of ultrasonographic prostate images

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 105-109

  Giesen, R J B ^a,b,c   Huynen, A L ^a   Aarnink, R G ^a   De La Rosette, J J M C H ^a   Debruyne, F M J ^a   Wijkstra, H ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b University of Twente ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Growing and pruning; Hierarchical decision tree; Prostate; Tissue discrimination; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION THEORY; EXPERT SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; UROLOGY;

HIERARCHICAL DECISION TREE; PROSTATE; TISSUE DISCRIMINATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; ULTRASOUND;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030111088     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02520013     Document Type: Article

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