Classification of benign and malignant patterns in digital mammograms for the diagnosis of breast cancer

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3344-3351

  Verma, Brijesh ^a   McLeod, Peter ^a   Klevansky, Alan ^b  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GOLD COAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; Intelligent classifiers; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ANOVA TEST; BENCHMARK DATABASE; BREAST ABNORMALITIES; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TISSUES; CLASS PATTERNS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIRECT CALCULATION; FEATURE SPACE; INTELLIGENT CLASSIFIERS; LEARNING CLASSIFIERS; LEARNING PROCESS; MULTIPLE CLUSTERS; VISUAL CLUES;

CLASSIFIERS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEURAL NETWORKS; X RAY SCREENS;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 71249094411     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.10.016     Document Type: Article

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