Automatic labelling and BI-RADS characterisation of mammogram densities

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 6394-6398

  Marias, K ^a   Linguraru, M G ^c   Ballester, M A Gonzalez ^d   Petroudi, S ^b   Tsiknakis, M ^a   Brady, Sir M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Image analysis and classification; Intelligent decision support systems

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TISSUE CULTURE; TUMORS;

AUTOMATIC LABELLING; BREAST-TISSUE DENSITY; INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHIC DENSITIES; MEDICAL DATA;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 33846940312     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1615961     Document Type: Conference Paper

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