Automatic shape analysis and classification of mammographic calcifications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3034, Issue , 1997, Pages 869-876

  Gavrielides, Marios A ^a   Kallergi, Maria ^a   Clarke, Laurence P ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BIOMINERALIZATION; BIOPSY; BONE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; ERRORS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PIXELS; RADIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL ENCODING; STATISTICAL TESTS; VECTORS;

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGIES; AND DETECTIONS; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION TOOLS; AUTOMATIC SHAPES; AUTOMATIC TOOLS; BI-RADS; BITS PER PIXELS; BREAST IMAGING REPORTING AND DATA SYSTEMS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACIES; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CLASSIFICATION PROCESSES; EVALUATION TOOLS; FEATURE VECTORS; FOURIER DESCRIPTORS; IMAGE PIXELS; IMAGE SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; INFORMATION LOSSES; LEAVE ONE OUTS; LONG TERMS; LOWER RESOLUTIONS; MAMMOGRAPHIC CALCIFICATIONS; MANUAL SEGMENTATIONS; MEAN VALUES; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; REAL CASES; SHAPE ANALYSIS; SHAPE AND SIZES; SHAPE FACTORS; SHAPE FEATURES; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; TEST SETS; TRAINING SETS;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY);

EID: 33646649815     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.274175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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