Spatial second-derivative image processing: An application to optical mammography to enhance the detection of breast tumors

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 517-524

  Pera, Vivian E ^a   Heffer, Erica L ^a   Siebold, Horst ^b   Schütz, Oliver ^b   Heywang Köbrunner, Sylvia ^c   Götz, Linda ^c   Heinig, Anke ^c   Fantini, Sergio ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Digital image processing; Optical mammography; Photon migration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURGERY; TUMORS;

AUTOMATIC DISPLAY;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BREAST TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 0141756145     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1578496     Document Type: Article

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