A novel automatic suspicious mass regions identification using Havrda & Charvat entropy and Otsu's N thresholding

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 349-360

  Kurt, Burçin ^a   Nabiyev, Vasif V ^b   Turhan, Kemal ^c  

^a School of Computer Engineering Department of Medical Informatics   (Turkey)

^b Computer Engineering ^*  (Turkey)

^c KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Breast region segmentation; Havrda Charvat entropy; Image enhancement; Otsu's N thresholding; Pectoral muscle segmentation; Suspicious mass regions identification

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; X RAY SCREENS;

BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER-AIDED SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGE ANALYSIS; MASS REGIONS; PECTORAL MUSCLE SEGMENTATIONS; REGION SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; THRESHOLDING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENTROPY; HAVRDA AND CHARVAT ENTROPY METHOD; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; OTSUS N THRESHOLDING METHOD; PECTORAL MUSCLE; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ENTROPY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84899104875     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2014.02.014     Document Type: Article

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