Computerized ultrasound B-scan characterization of breast nodules

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1421-1428

  Lefebvre, Françoise ^a,c   Meunier, Martine ^b   Thibault, Fabienne ^b   Laugier, Pascal ^a   Berger, Geneviève ^a  

^a UPMC Univ Paris 06   (France)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^c 91405 Orsay Campus   (France)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Texture analysis; Tissue characterization; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOMETRICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRASOUND;

BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 0034503391     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(00)00302-1     Document Type: Article

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