Can texture of tissue surrounding microcalcifications in mammography be used for breast cancer diagnosis?

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 580, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1071-1074

  Karahaliou, A ^a   Boniatis, I ^a   Sakellaropoulos, P ^a   Skiadopoulos, S ^a   Panayiotakis, G ^a   Costaridou, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Classification; Mammography; Microcalcifications; Surrounding tissue; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; ONCOLOGY; TEXTURES; TISSUE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

MICROCALCIFICATIONS; SURROUNDING TISSUE; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34548515770     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2007.06.064     Document Type: Article

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