Characterizing mammographic images by using generic texture features

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Häberle, Lothar ^a   Wagner, Florian ^b,c   Fasching, Peter A ^a,d   Jud, Sebastian M ^a   Heusinger, Katharina ^a   Loehberg, Christian R ^a   Hein, Alexander ^a   Bayer, Christian M ^a   Hack, Carolin C ^a   Lux, Michael P ^a   Binder, Katja ^a   Elter, Matthias ^b   Münzenmayer, Christian ^b   Schulz Wendtland, Rüdiger ^e   Meier Meitinger, Martina ^e   Adamietz, Boris R ^e   Uder, Michael ^e   Beckmann, Matthias W ^a   Wittenberg, Thomas ^b  

^a Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen Nuremberg   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL FOR OPTICS AND IMAGING   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PERCENTAGE MAMMOGRAPHIC DENSITY; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BREAST TUMOR; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84860541464     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr3163     Document Type: Article

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