Automated detection of mammographic masses: Preliminary assessment of an information-theoretic CAD scheme for reduction of false positives

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5747, Issue II, 2005, Pages 947-954

  Tourassi, Georgia D ^a   Eltonsy, Nevine H ^c   Elmaghraby, Adel S ^c   Floyd Jr , Carey E ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Mammography; Mass detection; Mutual information

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS; FALSE POSITIVES; MASS DETECTION; MUTUAL INFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCREENING;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844484626     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595696     Document Type: Conference Paper

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