Investigation of psychophysical similarity measures for selection of similar images in the diagnosis of clustered microcalcifications on mammograms

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5695-5702

  Muramatsu, Chisako ^a,b   Li, Qiang ^c   Schmidt, Robert ^a   Shiraishi, Junji ^a   Doi, Kunio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustered microcalcifications; Computer aided diagnosis; Mammograms; Similar images

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TESTING; X RAY SCREENS;

CLUSTERED MICROCALCIFICATIONS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL DATABASE FOR SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHIES; DISTANCE-BASED METHODS; MAMMOGRAMS; SIMILAR IMAGE; SIMILARITY MEASURE;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 56749103278     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3020760     Document Type: Article

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