Diagnosis of breast tumors with sonographic texture analysis using wavelet transform and neural networks

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1301-1310

  Chen, Dar Ren ^a   Chang, Ruey Feng ^b   Kuo, Wen Jia ^b   Chen, Ming Chun ^b   Huang, Yu Len ^b  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Breast tumor; Neural network; Ultrasonic; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; TUMORS;

SEGMENTATION;

ULTRASONICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; ROC CURVE; SOLID TUMOR; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; VARIANCE;

BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036814403     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(02)00620-8     Document Type: Article

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