A statistical approach for breast density segmentation

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 527-537

  Oliver, Arnau ^a   Lladó, Xavier ^a   Pérez, Elsa ^b   Pont, Josep ^b   Denton, Erika R E ^c   Freixenet, Jordi ^a   Martí, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL JOSEP TRUETA   (Spain)

^c NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast tissue density; computerized method; image segmentation; statistic analysis

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST TISSUES; COMPUTERIZED METHODS; DIGITAL DATABASE; FULL-FIELD; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEIGHBOURHOOD; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; STATISTIC ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; TISSUE TYPES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; TISSUE; X RAY SCREENS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77957863673     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-009-9217-5     Document Type: Article

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