Development of an automated method for detecting mammographic masses with a partial loss of region

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1209-1214

  Hatanaka, Yuji ^a   Hara, Takeshi ^a   Fujita, Hiroshi ^a   Kasai, Satoshi ^b   Endo, Tokiko ^c   Iwase, Takuji ^d  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Konica Corporation   (Japan)

^c Department of Radiology   (Japan)

^d AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Computer aided diagnosis; Mammography; Mass detection; Template matching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; EDGE DETECTION; ONCOLOGY; PATTERN MATCHING; PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUE; BREAST CANCER; MASS DETECTION; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

EID: 0035544608     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.974916     Document Type: Article

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