Advances in computerized image analysis methods on breast ultrasound

Medical Imaging Systems Technology: Analysis and Computational Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 119-150

  Madabhushi, Anant ^a   Metaxas, Dimitris N ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Computer aided diagnosis; Feature classification; Image analysis; Image processing; Segmentation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

BREAST; BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSTICS; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED METHODS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FEATURE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84967662131     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812705785_0005     Document Type: Chapter

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