Improvement of microcalcification cluster detection in mammography utilizing image enhancement techniques

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1045-1055

  Papadopoulos, A ^a,b   Fotiadis, D I ^b   Costaridou, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

CAD; Mammography image enhancement; Microcalcification detection; Preprocessing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TUNING;

ADAPTIVE HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; CAD; CLUSTER DETECTION; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION CAD); DATA-SETS; DISCRETE WAVELETS; ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHMS; ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUES; MAMMOGRAPHIC; MAMMOGRAPHY IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICRO CALCIFICATIONS; MICROCALCIFICATION DETECTION; PARAMETER TUNING; PREPROCESSING; PROCESSING STAGE;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST LIMITED ADAPTIVE HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LOCAL RANGE MODIFICATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUNDANT DISCRETE WAVELET;

CALCINOSIS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 53049094780     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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