Automatic Identification of the Pectoral Muscle in Mammograms

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 232-245

  Ferrari, R J ^a,b   Rangayyan, R M ^a   Desautels, J E L ^a,c   Borges, R A ^d,e   Frere A F ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Screen Test Alberta   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSIDADE DE MOGI DAS CRUZES   (Brazil)

^e Mogimagem   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Gabor wavelets; Hough transform; Mammography; Pectoral muscle

Indexed keywords

HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; RADIOLOGY; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER; GABOR WAVELETS; PECTORAL MUSCLES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 1342303477     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.823062     Document Type: Article

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