Automated assessment of breast tissue density in digital mammograms

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-43

  Subashini, T S ^a   Ramalingam, V ^a   Palanivel, S ^a  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Artifact removal; Breast tissue density; Mammograms; Pectoral muscles; Segmentation; Statistical features; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT REMOVAL; AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT; BREAST CANCER RISK; BREAST TISSUE CLASSIFICATION; BREAST TISSUES; CONNECTED COMPONENT LABELING; DIGITAL DATABASE; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS; GRAY LEVELS; MAMMOGRAPHIC DENSITY; PECTORAL MUSCLES; REGION OF INTEREST; STATISTICAL FEATURES; TEXTURE FEATURES; THRESHOLDING;

CLASSIFIERS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEARS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; X RAY SCREENS;

MUSCLE;

EID: 71649113596     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2009.09.009     Document Type: Article

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