Classification of small lesions on dynamic breast MRI: Integrating dimension reduction and out-of-sample extension into CADx methodology

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 65-77

  Nagarajan, Mahesh B ^a,b   Huber, Markus B ^a,b   Schlossbauer, Thomas ^c   Leinsinger, Gerda ^c   Krol, Andrzej ^d   Wismüller, Axel ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated lesion classification; Dimension reduction; Dynamic breast magnetic resonance imaging; Feature selection; Minkowski functionals; Out of sample extension; Topological texture features

Indexed keywords

BREAST MAGNETIC-RESONANCE IMAGING; DIMENSION REDUCTION; LESION CLASSIFICATION; MINKOWSKI FUNCTIONALS; OUT-OF-SAMPLE EXTENSION; TEXTURE FEATURES;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY; VECTORS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

GADOBENATE DIMEGLUMINE; MAGNEVISTTM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST LESION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLASSIFIER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REDUCTION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TRAINING; WORKFLOW;

AUTOMATED LESION CLASSIFICATION; DIMENSION REDUCTION; DYNAMIC BREAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEATURE SELECTION; MINKOWSKI FUNCTIONALS; OUT-OF-SAMPLE EXTENSION; TOPOLOGICAL TEXTURE FEATURES;

BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84892900717     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: 18732860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2013.11.003     Document Type: Article

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