Steepest changes of a probability-based cost function for delineation of mammographic masses: A validation study

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2796-2810

  Kinnard, Lisa ^a,b,c   Lo, Shih Chung B ^a   Makariou, Erini ^a   Osicka, Teresa ^a,d   Wang, Paul ^c   Chouikha, Mohamed F ^b   Freedman, Matthew T ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Howard University   (United States)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Georgetown University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Mammography; Mass boundary detection; Probability based cost function

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST FUNCTIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY;

AUTOMATIC BOUNDARY DETECTION METHODS; BOUNDARY DETECTION; DIGITAL DATABASE FOR SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHIES; DIGITIZED MAMMOGRAMS; INTENSITY THRESHOLD; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIOLOGIST; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 7244232650     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1781551     Document Type: Article

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