A two-stage method for microcalcification cluster segmentation in mammography by deformable models

Medical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5848-5861

  Arikidis, N ^a   Vassiou, K ^b   Kazantzi, A ^a   Skiadopoulos, S ^a   Karahaliou, A ^a   Costaridou, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

active contours; diagnostic accuracy; level set; mammography; microcalcification cluster segmentation; scale space representation; segmentation reliability

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; FEATURE SELECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; NUMERICAL METHODS; RELIABILITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; DEFORMABLE MODELS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; LEVEL SET; MICROCALCIFICATION CLUSTER SEGMENTATION; MICROCALCIFICATION CLUSTERS; QUANTITATIVE IMAGE ANALYSIS; SCALE-SPACE REPRESENTATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST DENSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MICROCALCIFICATION CLUSTER SEGMENTATION; RELIABILITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; CALCINOSIS; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CALCINOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84941959334     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4930246     Document Type: Article

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