Fast detection of masses in computer-aided mammography

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 54-64

  Christoyianni, Ioanna ^a   Dermatas, Evalgelos ^a   Kokkinakis, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMPUTER-AIDED MAMMOGRAPHY; NEURAL CLASSIFICATION MODULES; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NEURAL NETWORKS (RBFNN); REGION OF INTEREST (ROI);

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033894519     PISSN: 10535888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/79.814646     Document Type: Article

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