Computer aided breast cancer diagnosis techniques in ultrasound: A survey

Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 331-349

  Prabusankarlal, K M ^a,b   Thirumoorthy, P ^c   Manavalan, R ^b  

^a BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b K S RANGASAMY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE AUTONOMOUS   (India)

^c GOVERNMENT ARTS COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Breast Cancer; Classification; Feature Extraction; Feature Selection; Segmentation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST LESION; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW;

EID: 84911398862     PISSN: 21567018     EISSN: 21567026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jmihi.2014.1269     Document Type: Review

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