Mammographic texture synthesis: Second-generation clustered lumpy backgrounds using a genetic algorithm

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 7595-7607

  Castella, Cyril ^a,b   Kinkel, Karen ^c   Descombes, François ^d   Eckstein, Miguel P ^e   Sottas, Pierre Edouard ^a   Verdun, Francis R ^a   Bochud, François O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c Clinique des Grangettes   (Switzerland)

^d Haute Ecole Cantonale Vaudoise de la Santé   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOLOGY;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; CLUSTERED LUMPY BACKGROUNDS (CLB) TECHNIQUE; RADIOLOGISTS; REAL IMAGES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST TUMOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 44649096973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007595     Document Type: Article

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