Snakules for automatic classification of candidate spiculated mass locations on mammography

Proceedings of the IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 197-200

  Muralidhar, Gautam S ^a   Markey, Mia K ^a   Bovik, Alan C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contours; Computer aided detection; Snakes; Snakules; Spiculated masses

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR ALGORITHMS; ACTIVE CONTOURS; AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES;

AUTOMATIC INDEXING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; X RAY SCREENS;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954806528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SSIAI.2010.5483885     Document Type: Conference Paper

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