Detection of architectural distortion in prior mammograms

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 279-294

  Banik, Shantanu ^a   Rangayyan, Rangaraj M ^a   Desautels, J E Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angular spread of power; architectural distortion; breast cancer; computer aided diagnosis (CAD); fractal dimension; Gabor filters; Laws' texture energy measures; phase portrait analysis; prior mammograms; texture analysis

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SPREADS; ARCHITECTURAL DISTORTIONS; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS (CAD); GABOR FILTER; LAWS' TEXTURE ENERGY MEASURES; PHASE-PORTRAIT ANALYSIS; PRIOR MAMMOGRAMS; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASES; FACE RECOGNITION; FRACTAL DIMENSION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; TEXTURES; X RAY SCREENS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; ROC CURVE;

EID: 79551600566     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2076828     Document Type: Article

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