Statistically optimized biopsy strategy for the diagnosis of prostate cancer

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 433-438

  Shen, Dinggang ^a   Lao, Zhiqiang ^a   Zeng, Jianchao ^b   Herskovits, Edward H ^a   Fichtinger, Gabor ^a   Davatzikos, Christos ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBABILITY; TUMORS;

PROSTATE CANCERS;

BIOPSY;

EID: 0034875410     PISSN: 10637125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/CBMS.2001.941758     Document Type: Article

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