Cluster analysis of BI-RADS™ descriptions of biopsy-proven breast lesions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4684 I, Issue , 2002, Pages 363-370

  Markey, Mia K ^a   Lo, Joseph Y ^a   Tourassi, Georgia D ^a   Floyd Jr , Carey E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Agglomerative hierarchical clustering; Breast cancer; Computer aided diagnosis; Data mining; k means; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

AGGLOMERATIVE HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036035416     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.467177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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