Remote computer-aided breast cancer detection and diagnosis system based on cytological images

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 949-964

  George, Yasmeen Mourice ^a   Zayed, Hala Helmy ^a   Roushdy, Mohamed Ismail ^b   Elbagoury, Bassant Mohamed ^b  

^a Benha University   (Egypt)

^b Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Circular Hough transform (CHT); computer aided detection and diagnosis (CADx); fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC); fuzzy c means (FCM) clustering; learning vector quantization (LVQ); marker controlled watershed transform; multilayer perceptron (MLP); Otsu's thresholding method; probabilistic neural network (PNN); support vector machine (SVM)

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; CELLS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SYSTEMS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VECTOR QUANTIZATION; WEB SERVICES;

CIRCULAR HOUGH TRANSFORMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; FINE-NEEDLE ASPIRATIONS; FUZZY C MEANS CLUSTERING; LEARNING VECTOR QUANTIZATION; MARKER-CONTROLLED WATERSHEDS; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORKS; THRESHOLDING METHODS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84907599127     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2013.2279415     Document Type: Article

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