Segmentation Algorithms for Detecting Microcalcifications in Mammograms

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 141-149

  Bankman, Isaac N ^a   Nizialek, Tanya ^b   Simon, Inpakala ^c   Gatewood, Olga B ^d   Weinberg, Irving N ^b   Brody, William R ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PEM Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contours; Early breast cancer detection; Edge detection; Mammogram; Microcalcification; Region growing; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); DATA STRUCTURES; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

MAMMOGRAMS;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031150038     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4233.640656     Document Type: Article

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