Scale-space signatures for the detection of clustered microcalcifications in digital mammograms

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 774-786

  Netsch, Thomas ^a   Peitgen, Heinz Otto ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLUSTERED MICROCALCIFICATIONS; FREE-RESPONSE RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC (FROC); LAPLACIAN SCALE-SPACE REPRESENTATION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREAST TUMOR; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033181290     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.802755     Document Type: Article

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