Automated seeded lesion segmentation on digital mammograms

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 510-517

  Kupinski, Matthew A ^a   Giger, Maryellen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Digital mammography; Lesion segmentation; Mass detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

RADIAL GRADIENT INDEX (RGI);

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0032129152     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.730396     Document Type: Article

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