A multi-stage neural network aided system for detection of microcalcifications in digitized mammograms

Neurocomputing

Volumn 71, Issue 13-15, 2008, Pages 2625-2634

  Pal, Nikhil R ^a   Bhownik, Brojeshwar ^a   Patel, Sanjaya K ^a   Pal, Srimantra ^a   Das, J ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Mammogram; Microcalcification; Mountain clustering; Neural network; Online feature selection

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); LANDFORMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEURAL NETWORKS; PIXELS; X RAY SCREENS;

BREAST CANCER; MAMMOGRAM; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; MOUNTAIN CLUSTERING; ONLINE FEATURE SELECTION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM;

EID: 56449098759     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2007.06.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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