Robust texture analysis using multi-resolution gray-scale invariant features for breast sonographic tumor diagnosis

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2262-2273

  Yang, Min Chun ^a   Moon, Woo Kyung ^b   Wang, Yu Chiang Frank ^c   Bae, Min Sun ^b   Huang, Chiun Sheng ^d   Chen, Jeon Hor ^e   Chang, Ruey Feng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

0632+ bootstrap estimators; Breast sonography; Computer aided tumor diagnosis; Gray scale invariant features; Multi resolution approach; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

0632+ BOOTSTRAP ESTIMATORS; BREAST SONOGRAPHY; INVARIANT FEATURES; MULTI-RESOLUTION APPROACH; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; EXPERIMENTS; MEDICAL IMAGING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXTURES; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84890370371     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2279938     Document Type: Article

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