Fractal analysis for classification of breast carcinoma in optical coherence tomography

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Sullivan, Amanda C ^a   Hunt, John P ^b   Oldenburg, Amy L ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Box counting method; Breast cancer; Fractal dimension; Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION; BOX-COUNTING METHOD; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMAS; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PATIENTS; CUT-OFF VALUE; FIBROGLANDULAR; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN BREAST TISSUE; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; RAPID ASSESSMENT; SELF-SIMILARITIES;

DISEASES; HISTOLOGY; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOCHEMISTRY; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 80455176490     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3590746     Document Type: Article

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