A computer-aided system for mass detection and classification in digitized mammograms

Biomedical Engineering - Applications, Basis and Communications

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 215-228

  Yang, Sheng Chih ^a,b   Wang, Chuin Mu ^b   Chung, Yi Nung ^c   Hsu, Giu Cheng ^d   Lee, San Kan ^e   Chung, Pau Choo ^a   Chang, Chein I ^f  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIN YI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c DA YEH UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e Su Ao Veterans Hospital   (Taiwan)

^f Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Detection; Entropic thresholding; Fractal dimension (FD); Joint entropy (JE); Local entropy (LE); Probabilistic neural network (PNN); Shape feature; Spatial gray level difference matrix (SGLDM); Texture feature

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FEATURE EXTRACTION; FRACTALS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

DETECTION; ENTROPIC THRESHOLDING; FRACTAL DIMENSION (FD); JOINT ENTROPY (JE); LOCAL ENTROPY (LE); PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORKS (PNN); SHAPE FEATURE; SPATIAL GRAY LEVEL DIFFERENCE MATRIX (SGLDM); TEXTURE FEATURE;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MAMMOGRAPHY; NOISE; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SPATIAL GRAY LEVEL DIFFERENCE MATRIX; SURFACE PROPERTY; TAIWAN;

EID: 29144535308     PISSN: 10162372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4015/S1016237205000330     Document Type: Review

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