Automatic classification of clustered microcalcifications by a multiple expert system

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1467-1477

  De Santo, Massimo ^a   Molinara, Mario ^a   Tortorella, Francesco ^b   Vento, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Clustered microcalcifications; Computer aided diagnosis; Mammography; Multiple expert systems

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISEASE CONTROL; EXPERT SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MICROCALCIFICATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CANCER;

EID: 0037411353     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(03)00004-9     Document Type: Article

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