Extracting hidden visual information from mammography images using conjugate image enhancement software

ICIA 2005 - Proceedings of 2005 International Conference on Information Acquisition

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 258-262

  Yan, Zhiwen ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Liu, Bing ^a   Zheng, Jeffrey ^a   Lu, Lian ^b   Xie, Yingfu ^b   Liang, Zhi ^b   Li, Jing ^b  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b First People s Hospital of Yunnan Province   (China)

Author keywords

Asymmetric density; Breast cancer; Feature extraction; Masses; Microcalcification

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; ONCOLOGY; RADIOLOGY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ASYMMETRIC DENSITY; BREAST CANCER; MICROCALCIFICATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33947130686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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