Computerized mass detection in whole breast ultrasound images: Reduction of false positives using bilateral subtraction technique

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6514, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Ikedo, Yuji ^a   Fukuoka, Daisuke ^a   Hara, Takeshi ^a   Fujita, Hiroshi ^a   Takada, Etsuo ^b   Endo, Tokiko ^c   Morita, Takako ^d  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION NAGOYA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^d Chunichi Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilateral subtraction; Computer aided detection; Whole breast ultrasound image

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

BILATERAL SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTIONS; FALSE POSITIVES; WHOLE BREAST ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 35248848457     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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