The use of a priori information in the detection of mammographic microcalcifications to improve their classification

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 823-831

  Salfity, Maria F ^a   Nishikawa, Robert M ^b   Jiang, Yulei ^b   Papaioannou, John ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD; Classification; Detection; Mammography; Microcalcifications

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ERROR DETECTION; MAMMOGRAPHY;

CALCIFICATION DETECTIONS; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; CLUSTER DETECTION; CLUSTER-BASED; DIFFERENCE OF GAUSSIANS; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; PRIORI INFORMATION;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY);

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; BREAST CALCIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0037911226     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1559884     Document Type: Article

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