Automated registration of breast lesions in temporal pairs of mammograms for interval change analysis - Local affine transformation for improved localization

Medical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1070-1079

  Hadjiiski, L ^a   Chan, H P ^a   Sahiner, B ^a   Petrick, N ^a   Helvie, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Affine transformation; Breast cancer; Computer aided diagnosis; Interval change; Mammography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; LOCATION; X RAY SCREENS;

AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; AUTOMATED REGISTRATION; BREAST CANCER; INTERVAL CHANGE; INTERVAL CHANGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION; REGIONAL REGISTRATION; REGISTRATION ACCURACY;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GEOMETRY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0034971403     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1376134     Document Type: Article

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