Needs assessment for next generation computer-aided mammography reference image databases and evaluation studies

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 749-767

  Horsch, Alexander ^a,c   Hapfelmeier, Alexander ^a   Elter, Matthias ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Evaluation; Mammography; Reference image database

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DATA BASE; DATA EXTRACTION; DIGITAL DATABASE FOR SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 81855175314     PISSN: 18616410     EISSN: 18616429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11548-011-0553-9     Document Type: Article

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