Breast mass detection in tomosynthesis projection images using information-theoretic similarity measures

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6514, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Singh, Swatee ^a,b   Tourassi, Georgia D ^b   Lo, Joseph Y ^a,b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST MASS DETECTION; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION (CADE); DIFFERENCE OF GAUSSIAN (DOG) FILTER; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; INFORMATION-THEORETIC SIMILARITY MEASURES; TOMOSYNTHESIS PROJECTION IMAGES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; ONCOLOGY; RADIOLOGY;

TUMORS;

EID: 35248829191     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.713004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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