Application of the compound probability density function for characterization of breast masses in ultrasound B scans

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2241-2248

  Shankar, P M ^a,b   Piccoli, C W ^c   Reid, J M ^a,b   Forsberg, F ^c   Goldberg, B B ^c  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

BREAST IMAGES; BREAST MASSES; MALIGNANT MASSES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; B SCAN; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CALCULATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 20044389317     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/10/004     Document Type: Article

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