Effect of ROI size on the performance of an information-theoretic CAD system in mammography: Multi-size fusion analysis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6915, Issue , 2008, Pages

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

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification and classifier design; Detection; Mammography

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION AND CLASSIFIER DESIGN; MULTISIZE FUSION ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 44349167591     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.772678     Document Type: Conference Paper

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