A computer-aided diagnosis system for breast cancer detection by using a curvelet transform

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1002-1014

  Gedik, Nebi ^a   Atasoy, Ayten ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Curvelet transform; K nearest neighbor; Linear discriminant analysis; Mammography; Principal component analysis; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER DETECTION; COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM; CURVELET TRANSFORMS; EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST CANCER; K NEAREST NEIGHBOR ALGORITHM; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; X RAY SCREENS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84880121190     PISSN: 13000632     EISSN: 13036203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3906/elk-1201-8     Document Type: Article

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