Automatic detection of abnormalities in mammograms

BMC Medical Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Suhail, Zobia ^a   Sarwar, Mansoor ^a   Murtaza, Kashif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BREAST TUMOR; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84946412275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12880-015-0094-8     Document Type: Article

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