Computer-aided diagnosis scheme using a filter bank for detection of microcalcification clusters in mammograms

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 273-283

  Nakayama, Ryohei ^a   Uchiyama, Yoshikazu ^a   Yamamoto, Koji ^a   Watanabe, Ryoji ^b,c,d   Namba, Kiyoshi ^b,e,f,g,h  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Breastopia Namba Hospital   (Japan)

^c National Clinical Database Data Quality Management Subcommittee   (Japan)

^d Japanese Society for Lymphology   (Japan)

^e Breastopia Namba Corporation

^f Japanese Breast Cancer Society   (Japan)

^g Japanese Society of Breast Cancer Imaging   (Japan)

^h Japanese Society of Mammoscopy   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Filter bank; Hessian matrix; Microcalcification cluster; Multiresolution analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS; FILTER BANK; HESSIAN MATRIX; MICROCALCIFICATION CLUSTERS; MICRORESOLUTION ANALYSIS;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST CALCIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 31544432048     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.862536     Document Type: Article

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