Development of tolerant features for characterization of masses in mammograms

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 678-688

  Rojas Domínguez, Alfonso ^a   Nandi, Asoke K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast masses; Characterization; Classification; Diagnosis; Feature extraction; Mammography

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST MASS; BREAST MASSES; CLASSIFICATION; MALIGNANT MASS; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; RELATIVE GRADIENT;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFIER; DATA BASE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 67649664255     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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