Automatic breast density segmentation: An integration of different approaches

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2715-2729

  Kallenberg, Michiel G J ^a   Lokate, Mariëtte ^b   Van Gils, Carla H ^b   Karssemeijer, Nico ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED METHODS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DENSITY; MAMMOGRAPHIC; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; PEARSON'S CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; PIXEL CLASSIFICATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; RISK FACTORS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; THRESHOLD METHODS; TRAINING DATA;

CORRELATION METHODS; MAMMOGRAPHY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

PIXELS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY;

AUTOMATION; BREAST; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79954609832     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/9/005     Document Type: Article

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