Digital mammographic Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) using adaptive level set segmentation

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4973-4978

  Ball, John E ^a,b   Bruce, Lori Mann ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b Navy Surface Warfare Center   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive systems; Breast cancer; Cancer; Classification; Computer aided diagnosis; Digital mammography; Discriminant analysis; Feature extraction; Image enhancement; Image segmentation; Level sets; Mammography; Receiver operating characteristics; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; ONCOLOGY;

BREAST CANCER; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; LEVEL SETS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 57649188677     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353457     Document Type: Conference Paper

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