Incorporation of an iterative, linear segmentation routine into a mammographic mass CAD system

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1512-1520

  Catarious, David M ^a   Baydush, Alan H ^b   Floyd, Carey E ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided detection (CAD); Image processing; Linear discriminant; Mammographic mass segmentation; Mammography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PIXELS; X RAY SCREENS;

COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; FALSE POSITIVE; IMAGES PROCESSING; LINEAR DISCRIMINANTS; MAMMOGRAPHIC MASS; MAMMOGRAPHIC MASS SEGMENTATION; MASS SEGMENTATION; PERFORMANCE;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST;

EID: 3042640716     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1738960     Document Type: Article

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