Multi-dimensional tumor detection in automated whole breast ultrasound using topographic watershed

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1503-1511

  Lo, Chung Ming ^a   Chen, Rong Tai ^a   Chang, Yeun Chung ^b   Yang, Ya Wen ^b   Hung, Ming Jen ^a   Huang, Chiun Sheng ^b   Chang, Ruey Feng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Automated whole breast ultrasound; breast cancer; computer aided detection; multi dimensional false positive reduction; watershed segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST ULTRASOUND; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; FALSE-POSITIVE REDUCTION; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED WHOLE BREAST ULTRASOUND; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION SYSTEM; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; ALGORITHM; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; ROC CURVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903782536     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2014.2315206     Document Type: Article

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