Digital mammography: Opportunities and limitations

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 795-796

  Muttarak, Malai ^a  

^a CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; SAFETY; SCREENFILM MAMMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NOTE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 35848957279     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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