A novel featureless approach to mass detection in digital mammograms based on support vector machines

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 961-975

  Campanini, Renato ^a   Dongiovanni, Danilo ^a   Iampieri, Emiro ^a   Lanconelli, Nico ^a   Masotti, Matteo ^a   Palermo, Giuseppe ^a   Riccardi, Alessandro ^a   Roffilli, Matteo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES (SVM);

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 1642528342     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/6/007     Document Type: Article

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