Improvement of performance to discriminate malignant tumors from normal tissue on mammograms by feature selection and evaluation of feature selection criteria

Systems and Computers in Japan

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 72-84

  Furuya, Sachiko ^a   Wei, Jun ^a   Hagihara, Yoshihiro ^a   Shimizu, Akinobu ^a   Kobatake, Hidefumi ^a   Nawano, Shigeru ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnostic system; Feature selection; Malignant tumors; Mammograms

Indexed keywords

MAMMOGRAPHY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; SET THEORY; TUMORS;

COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM; FEATURE SELECTION; MALIGNANT TUMORS; MAMMOGRAMS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 2542460455     PISSN: 08821666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/scj.10587     Document Type: Article

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