An approach based on strain-compounding technique and ultrasound Nakagami imaging for detecting breast microcalcifications

Proceedings - IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics: Global Grand Challenge of Health Informatics, BHI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 515-518

  Liao, Yin Yin ^a   Li, Chia Hui ^a   Yeh, Chih Kuang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; BREAST MICROCALCIFICATIONS; BREAST TUMOR; BREAST ULTRASOUND; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC PERFORMANCE; ELASTIC CHARACTERISTIC; IMAGING METHOD; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; NAKAGAMI; NAKAGAMI PARAMETER; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVE ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; BIOSENSORS; CHEMICAL DETECTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY);

EID: 84864242040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BHI.2012.6211631     Document Type: Conference Paper

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