Quantitative assessment of breast dense tissue on mammograms

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2605-2608

  Lao, Zhiqiang ^a   Huo, Zhimin ^a  

^a CARESTREAM HEALTH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast density quantification; Computer aided diagnosis; Fuzzy C means; Mammography; Parenchymal patterns

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY;

BI-RADS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST DENSITY QUANTIFICATION; DATA SETS; FEATURE EVALUATION; FUZZY C MEAN; FUZZY C-MEANS; IMAGE CHARACTERISTICS; MAMMOGRAPHIC; MULTIPLE LEVELS OF DETAIL; PERFORMANCE VALIDATION; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; ROBUST SEGMENTATION; SOFT-THRESHOLD; STRONG CORRELATION; THRESHOLDING;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 77951949060     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2009.5413991     Document Type: Conference Paper

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