Detection of arterial calcification in mammograms by random walks

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5636 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 713-724

  Cheng, Jie Zhi ^a   Cole, Elodia B ^a   Pisano, Etta D ^a   Shen, Dinggang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast arterioal calcification; Mammogram; Random walk; Vessel detection

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; BREAST ARTERIOAL CALCIFICATION; EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; LINKING ALGORITHMS; MAMMOGRAM; RANDOM WALK; TRACKING ALGORITHM; VESSEL DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; DATA PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; X RAY SCREENS;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY);

ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BREAST DISEASE; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349336331     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02498-6_59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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