Towards Automated Mammograph Image Analysis

ICIA 2005 - Proceedings of 2005 International Conference on Information Acquisition

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 85-90

  Zheng, Jeffrey Zhi Jie ^a   Lu, Liang ^b   Xie, Yinfu ^b  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

Breast cancer detection; Convexity property; Mass shape and mass margin; Meta shape feature extraction; Micro calcification clusters

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; CONVEXITY PROPERTY; FEATURE CLUSTERING; META SHAPE FEATURE EXTRACTION; MICRO CALCIFICATION CLUSTERS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947167289     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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