Classification improvement by segmentation refinement: Application to contrast-enhanced MR-mammography

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3216, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 184-191

  Tanner, Christine ^a   Khazen, Michael ^b   Kessar, Preminda ^b   Leach, Martin O ^b   Hawkes, David J ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; LESIONS; REGION OF INTEREST (ROI); SEMI-AUTOMATIC METHODS; AUTOMATIC REFINEMENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST-ENHANCED MR; DISCRIMINATION ABILITY; MALIGNANT LESION; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 20344363161     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30135-6_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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