Computer aided detection of clusters of microcalcifications on full field digital mammograms

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2975-2988

  Ge, Jun ^a   Sahiner, Berkman ^a   Hadjiiski, Lubomir M ^a   Chan, Heang Ping ^a   Wei, Jun ^a   Helvie, Mark A ^a   Zhou, Chuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Computer aided detection (CAD); Full field digital mammography (FFDM)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; DATA REDUCTION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEURAL NETWORKS; REDUCTION; STATISTICAL TESTS; X RAY SCREENS;

CLUSTERED MICROCALCIFICATIONS; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; CONVOLUTION NEURAL NETWORK; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FULL-FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS; MICROCALCIFICATION CLUSTERS; STEPWISE LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; CONVOLUTION NEURAL NETWORK; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL IMAGING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MICROCALCIFICATION CLUSTER; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33746746440     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2211710     Document Type: Article

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