Automated classification of clustered microcalcifications into malignant and benign types

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2600-2608

  Veldkamp, W J H ^a   Karssemeijer, N ^a   Otten, J D M ^a   Hendriks, J H C L ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Benign; Classification; Detection; Feature selection; Malignant; Microcalcification cluster; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ERROR DETECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LIGHT SOURCES; MAMMOGRAPHY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; X RAY SCREENS;

BENIGN; CLUSTERED MICROCALCIFICATIONS; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR METHOD; MALIGNANT; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL; MICROCALCIFICATION CLUSTERS; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST CALCIFICATION; CALCULATION; DATA BASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

EID: 0033694673     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1318221     Document Type: Article

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