Automated breast mass detection in 3D reconstructed tomosynthesis volumes: A featureless approach

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3626-3636

  Singh, Swatee ^a,b   Tourassi, Georgia D ^a,c   Baker, Jay A ^d   Samei, Ehsan ^a,b   Lo, Joseph Y ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Computer aided detection; Information theory; Knowledge base; Mammography; Mass detection; Masses; Mutual information; Projection images; Reconstructed volume; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; INFORMATION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

BREAST IMAGING; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MASS DETECTION; MASSES; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; PROJECTION IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTED VOLUME; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 48349099068     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2953562     Document Type: Article

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