Towards automated segmentation and classification of masses in digital mammograms

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 26 III, Issue , 2004, Pages 1814-1817

  Ball, J E ^a   Butler, T W ^a   Bruce, L M ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Feature extraction; Image processing; Image segmentation; Medical expert systems; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOLOGY; TUMORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS (DWT); MEDICAL EXPERT SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DENSITY (OD); RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS (ROC);

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11144310148     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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