Computer-aided detection/diagnosis of breast cancer in mammography and ultrasound: A review

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 420-426

  Jalalian, Afsaneh ^a   Mashohor, Syamsiah B T ^a   Mahmud, Hajjah Rozi ^a   Saripan, M Iqbal B ^a   Ramli, Abdul Rahman B ^a   Karasfi, Babak ^b  

^a Putra Malaysia University   (Malaysia)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Computer aided detection; Computer aided diagnosis; Mammography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER DETECTION; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST CANCER; FEATURE EXTRACTION AND SELECTION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION METRICS; REGIONS OF INTEREST; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 84876727324     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: 18734499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2012.09.024     Document Type: Review

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