Evaluating geodesic active contours in microcalcifications segmentation on mammograms

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 304-315

  Duarte, Marcelo A ^a   Alvarenga, Andre V ^b   Azevedo, Carolina M ^c   Calas, Maria Julia G ^a   Infantosi, Antonio F C ^a   Pereira, Wagner C A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE METROLOGIA   (Brazil)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITÁRIO GAFFRÉE E GUINLE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Geodesic active contours; Mammography; Microcalcification; Radiologists' knowledge; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; GEODESY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; TEXTURES;

BREAST CANCER; COMPUTERAIDED DIAGNOSES (CADX); DIGITAL DATABASE FOR SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHIES; GEODESIC ACTIVE CONTOUR; MAMMOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION; MICROCALCIFICATION SEGMENTATION; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; RADIOLOGISTS' KNOWLEDGE;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY);

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GEODESIC ACTIVE CONTOUR; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROCALCIFICATION SEGMENTATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; BREAST TUMOR; CALCINOSIS; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84947618901     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2015.08.016     Document Type: Article

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