Characterization of mammographic masses based on level set segmentation with new image features and patient information

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 280-290

  Shi, Jiazheng ^a   Sahiner, Berkman ^a   Chan, Heang Ping ^a   Ge, Jun ^a   Hadjiiski, Lubomir ^a   Helvie, Mark A ^a   Nees, Alexis ^a   Wu, Yi Ta ^a   Wei, Jun ^a   Zhou, Chuan ^a   Zhang, Yiheng ^a   Cui, Jing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast masses; Classification; Computer aided diagnosis; Level set; Mammography; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR SEGMENTATION; BREAST MASS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS(CAD); DIGITAL DATABASE FOR SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHIES; LEVEL SET; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 37549049420     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2820630     Document Type: Article

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