Observers' ability to judge the similarity of clustered calcifications on mammograms

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 192-198

  Nishikawa, Robert M ^a   Yang, Yongyi ^b   Huo, Dezheng ^a   Wernick, Miles ^b   Sennett, Charlene A ^a   Papaioannou, John ^a   Wei, Liyang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcifications; Classification; Computer aided diagnosis; Human perception; Intelligent workstation; Intra class coefficient; Mammography; Paired comparison; Psychophysical measures; Similarity

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN PERCEPTION; INTELLIGENT WORKSTATION; INTRA-CLASS COEFFICIENT; PAIRED COMPARISON; PSYCHOPHYSICAL MEASURES; SIMILARITY;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOLOGY;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 12144262393     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.536571     Document Type: Conference Paper

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