Classification of benign and malignant breast tumors by 2-D analysis based on contour description and scatterer characterization

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 513-522

  Tsui, Po Hsiang ^a   Liao, Yin Yin ^b   Chang, Chien Cheng ^a,c   Kuo, Wen Hung ^d   Chang, King Jen ^d   Yeh, Chih Kuang ^b  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Backscattered statistics; Breast tumor; Contour analysis; Nakagami distribution; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BACK-SCATTERED; BACKSCATTERED STATISTICS; BREAST TUMOR; CONTOUR ANALYSIS; NAKAGAMI DISTRIBUTION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CONTOUR FOLLOWERS; ONCOLOGY; SCATTERING; STATISTICS; ULTRASONICS;

TUMORS;

ALGORITHM; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 76249091375     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2037147     Document Type: Article

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