Classification of breast masses using a committee machine of neural networks

Proceedings of the 3rd IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 168-173

  Da Silva, Leandro Augusto ^a   Del Moral Hernandez, Emilio ^a   Rangayyan, Rangaraj M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast masses; Committee machine; Neural networks; Pattern classification; Shape analysis; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST MASSES; COMMITTEE MACHINE; SHAPE ANALYSIS; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 27844592387     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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