Computer aided detection system for micro calcifications in digital mammograms

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 226-235

  Mohamed, Hayat ^a   Mabrouk, Mai S ^b   Sharawy, Amr ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Misr University for Science and Technology   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network (ANN); Histogram equalization (HE); K nearest neighbor classifier (K NN); Micro calcifications (MCCs); Otsu's threshold; Support vector machine (SVM)

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; DISEASES; FORECASTING; GRAPHIC METHODS; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; X RAY SCREENS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION SYSTEMS; EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST CANCER; HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATIONS; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFIER; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; OTSU'S THRESHOLD; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFIERS;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY);

ARTICLE; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CANCER; CLASSIFIER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; K NEAREST NEIGHBOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BREAST TUMOR; CALCINOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRECANCER; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84904437352     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2014.04.010     Document Type: Article

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