Evaluating the Effect of Image Preprocessing on an Information-Theoretic CAD System in Mammography

Academic Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 626-634

  Tourassi, Georgia D ^a   Ike III, Robert ^a   Singh, Swatee ^a   Harrawood, Brian ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD; image processing; information theory; mammography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FILTER; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION THEORY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 41949128301     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.12.013     Document Type: Article

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