Computer aided diagnosis system for mammogram analysis: A survey

Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 653-674

  Nithya, R ^a   Santhi, B ^a  

^a SASTRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Classification; Feature extraction; Mammogram; Preprocessing; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ADAPTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST LIMITED ADAPTIVE HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; DATA MINING; DECISION TREE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL DATABASE FOR SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FUZZY SYSTEM; GRADIENT ENHANCEMENT; GRAY LEVEL COOCCURRENCE MATRIX; GRAY LEVEL DIFFERENCE METHOD; GRAY LEVEL RUN LENGTH METHOD; HISTOGRAM; HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; K NEAREST NEIGHBOR; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MACHINE LEARNING; MAMMOGRAM IMAGE ANALYSIS SOCIETY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RADIAL BASED FUNCTION; REFERENCE DATABASE; REVIEW; SHAPE FEATURE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; SURROUNDING REGION DEPENDENCE METHOD; WATERSHED;

EID: 84931060319     PISSN: 21567018     EISSN: 21567026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jmihi.2015.1441     Document Type: Review

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