Detection of clustered microcalcifications with SUSAN edge detector, adaptive contrast thresholding and spatial filters

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5112 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 837-843

  Veni, G ^a   Regentova, E E ^a   Zhang, L ^a  

^a University of Nevada Las Vegas   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Mammograms; Microcalcifications; SUSAN edge detector

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; EDGE DETECTION; HEALTH; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAMMOGRAPHY; TURBULENT FLOW; WAVE FILTERS;

CLUSTERED MICROCALCIFICATIONS (MCC); DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS; FALSE POSITIVE RATE (FPR); HEIDELBERG (CO); INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; SPATIAL FILTERING; SUSAN EDGE DETECTOR; THRESHOLDING; THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUES; TRUE POSITIVE;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY);

EID: 47749113763     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69812-8_83     Document Type: Conference Paper

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