A ranklet-based image representation for mass classification in digital mammograms

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3951-3961

  Masotti, Matteo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer aided detection; Mammography; Pattern classification; Ranklets; Support vector machine; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TISSUE;

CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; DIGITAL DATABASE FOR SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHIES; MULTIRESOLUTION IMAGE REPRESENTATION; RANKLETS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFIERS; WAVELETS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

ARTICLE; BREAST; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIGITAL IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33749375744     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2351953     Document Type: Article

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