An ellipse-fitting based method for efficient registration of breast masses on two mammographic views

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 487-494

  Pu, Jiantao ^a   Zheng, Bin ^a   Leader, Joseph Ken ^a   Gur, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast mass; Computer aided detection; Ellipse fitting; Image registration; Mammography; Region matching

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BREAST MASS; CARTESIAN COORDINATE SYSTEM; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; ELLIPSE FITTING; INTERSECTION POINTS; LOCAL COORDINATE SYSTEM; MEDIO-LATERAL OBLIQUE VIEWS; REGION MATCHING;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 38849181568     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2828188     Document Type: Article

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