Computer aided detection of microcalcifications in digital mammograms adopting a wavelet decomposition

Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 91-103

  Rizzi, Maria ^a   D'Aloia, Matteo ^a   Castagnolo, Beniamino ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer aided detection; Mammography; Microcalcifications; Wavelet transforms

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE RATE; BACKGROUND NOISE; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION SYSTEMS; DECOMPOSITION LEVEL; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS; EARLY DETECTION; EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST CANCER; FALSE POSITIVE; FALSE POSITIVE DETECTION; GRAY LEVELS; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROCALCIFICATION; MICROCALCIFICATION CLUSTERS; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; PIXEL VALUES; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SENSITIVITY PARAMETERS; SINGULARITY POINT; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; THRESHOLDING; TRUE POSITIVE RATES; WAVELET FILTERS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY);

EID: 67649411720     PISSN: 10692509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ICA-2009-0306     Document Type: Article

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