Off-line mammography screening system embedded with hierarchically-coarse-to-fine techniques for the detection and segmentation of clustered micro calcifications

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E83-D, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2161-2172

  Lo, Chien Shun ^a,b   Chung, Pau Choo ^c   Lee, San Kan ^d   Chang, Chein I ^e   Lee, Tain ^b   Hsu, Giu Cheng ^b   Yang, Ching Wen ^e  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^d Baltimore County   (United States)

^e TAIWAN ADVENTIST HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Clustered microcalcifications; Hierarchically coarse to fine segmentation; Mammogram

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERED MICROCALCIFICATIONS; OFF-LINE MAMMOGRAPHY SCREENING SYSTEMS;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034498682     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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