Cupping artifact correction and automated classification for high-resolution dedicated breast CT images

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 6397-6406

  Yang, Xiaofeng ^a   Wu, Shengyong ^a   Sechopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Fei, Baowei ^a,b,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Emory University   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; breast CT; cupping artifact correction; fuzzy C means; image classification; mammography; multiscale filter; segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FUZZY FILTERS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CT; CUPPING ARTIFACTS; FUZZY C MEAN; MULTISCALE FILTER;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84867320565     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4754654     Document Type: Article

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