Microcalcification detection in full-field digital mammograms with PFCM clustering and weighted SVM-based method

Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing

Volumn 2015, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Liu, Xiaoming ^a,b   Mei, Ming ^a   Liu, Jun ^a,b   Hu, Wei ^a,b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUBEI PROVINCE KEY LABORATORY OF INTELLIGENT INFORMATION PROCESSING AND REAL TIME INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM   (China)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Microcalcification cluster; Microcalcification detection; Possibilistic fuzzy c means; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TESTING; X RAY SCREENS;

ACTIVE CONTOUR SEGMENTATION; AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; CLUSTERED MICROCALCIFICATIONS; FULL-FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS; FUZZY C MEAN; MICROCALCIFICATION CLUSTERS; MICROCALCIFICATION DETECTION; WEIGHTED SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY);

EID: 84938944273     PISSN: 16876172     EISSN: 16876180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13634-015-0249-3     Document Type: Article

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