Estimation of breast percent density in raw and processed full field digital mammography images via adaptive fuzzy c-means clustering and support vector machine segmentation

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4903-4917

  Keller, Brad M ^a   Nathan, Diane L ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Zheng, Yuanjie ^a   Gee, James C ^a   Conant, Emily F ^a   Kontos, Despina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer risk estimation; breast density; digital mammography; quantitative imaging

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DISEASES; FUZZY SYSTEMS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TISSUE; X RAY SCREENS;

BREAST CANCER RISK ESTIMATIONS; BREAST DENSITY; COMPUTER-AIDED ASSESSMENT; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; SCREEN-FILM MAMMOGRAPHIES; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84864655971     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4736530     Document Type: Article

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