Visually lossless threshold determination for microcalcification detection in wavelet compressed mammograms

European Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2390-2396

  Kocsis, O ^a   Costaridou, L ^a   Varaki, L ^a   Likaki, E ^a   Kalogeropoulou, C ^a   Skiadopoulos, S ^a   Panayiotakis, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Compression transfer characteristics; Image quality; Mammography; Observer performance; Wavelet compression

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CALCIFICATION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; NOISE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGIST; ROC CURVE; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRESSURE; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0141618362     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-003-1826-7     Document Type: Article

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