Modelling mammographic microcalcification clusters using persistent mereotopology

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 47, Issue , 2014, Pages 157-163

  Strange, Harry ^a   Chen, Zhili ^a,b   Denton, Erika R E ^c   Zwiggelaar, Reyer ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SHENYANG JIANZHU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrete mereotopology; Image morphology; Mammographic image analysis; Topological image analysis

Indexed keywords

BAR CODES; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; IMAGE MORPHOLOGY; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGING; MEREOTOPOLOGY; MICROCALCIFICATION CLUSTERS; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; MULTIPLE REGIONS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84905101704     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2014.04.008     Document Type: Article

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