A computer-aided detection system for clustered microcalcifications

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-32

  Marrocco, Claudio ^a   Molinara, Mario ^a   D'Elia, Ciro ^a   Tortorella, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classification with unbalanced classes; Computer aided detection; Mammography; Markov random field

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MARKOV PROCESSES; TREES (MATHEMATICS); X RAY SCREENS;

CLASSIFIER COMBINATION; CLUSTERED MICROCALCIFICATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION SYSTEMS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; METHODS AND MATERIALS; SEQUENTIAL APPROACH;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CALCIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77955279059     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2010.04.007     Document Type: Article

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