Detection of architectural distortion in prior mammograms using fractal analysis and angular spread of power

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7624, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Banik, Shantanu ^a   Rangayyan, Rangaraj M ^a   Desautels, J E L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

angular spread of power; architectural distortion; breast cancer; feature extraction; fractal analysis; Mammography

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTALS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; GABOR FILTERS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X RAY SCREENS;

ANGULAR SPREADS; ARCHITECTURAL DISTORTIONS; BREAST CANCER; FOURIER POWER SPECTRUM; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FREE-RESPONSE RECEIVERS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84956852440     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.843840     Document Type: Conference Paper

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