A CAD system for the automatic detection of clustered microcalcifications in digitized mammogram films

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 115-126

  Yu, Songyang ^a   Guan, Ling ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Microcalcification; Multilayer feedforward neural network; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BREAST TUMOR; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

BAYESIAN IMAGE ANALYSIS; CLUSTERED MICROCALCIFICATIONS; DIGITIZED MAMMOGRAM FILMS; FREE RESPONSE OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); DATABASE SYSTEMS; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ONCOLOGY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0033624996     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.836371     Document Type: Article

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