Image feature extraction in the last screening mammograms prior to detection of breast cancer

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 46-52

  Sameti, Mohammad ^a,b   Ward, Rabab Kreidieh ^a   Morgan Parkes, Jacqueline ^c   Palcic, Branko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Braintech Inc   (Canada)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Computer assisted diagnosis (CAD); Digital mammography; Image analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER DETECTIONS; COMPUTER-ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS (CAD); DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; EARLY DETECTIONS; IMAGE FEATURE EXTRACTIONS; LINEAR CLASSIFICATIONS; MALIGNANT MASS; MAMMOGRAPHIC; PHOTOMETRIC IMAGES; SCREENING MAMMOGRAMS; STEPWISE DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 62349110273     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2008.2011163     Document Type: Article

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