Computer-aided diagnosis for early-stage breast cancer by using Wavelet Transform

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Tsai, Nan Chyuan ^a   Chen, Hong Wei ^a   Hsu, Sheng Liang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Neural network; Principal Component Analysis; Wavelet Transform

Indexed keywords

BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; BAYES CLASSIFIER; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTATION LOADS; DESCRIPTORS; DIAGNOSIS ALGORITHMS; EARLY-STAGE BREAST CANCER; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; GREY-LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIXES; HIGH-SENSITIVITY; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MAJORITY VOTING RULES; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; NORMAL TISSUE; PHASE I; PHASE II; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; TRUE POSITIVE RATES;

BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION THEORY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEURAL NETWORKS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MORPHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; WAVELET TRANSFORM;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; NERVE NET; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 79151480148     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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