DocumentCode
2729324
Title
Anisotropic diffusion filtering of mammographic image for CAD in digital mammography
Author
Li, Lihua ; Zheng, Yang ; Zhang, Lei ; Clark, Robert A.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Radiol., Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
Volume
2
fYear
2000
fDate
2000
Firstpage
1159
Abstract
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among American women. Computer aided diagnosis (CAD) has been proposed as a “second-opinion” strategy for breast screening. This paper presents a new mammographic image processing method using anisotropic diffusion filtering to improve feature enhancement and lesion detection of CAD in digital mammography
Keywords
X-ray applications; cancer; diagnostic radiography; filtering theory; mammography; medical image processing; X-ray mammography; anisotropic diffusion filtering; breast cancer; breast screening; computer aided diagnosis; digital mammography; feature enhancement; lesion detection; mammographic image; mammographic image processing method; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Breast cancer; Computer aided diagnosis; Computer vision; Digital filters; Filtering; Image processing; Lesions; Mammography; Smoothing methods;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Signal Processing Proceedings, 2000. WCCC-ICSP 2000. 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Beijing
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5747-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICOSP.2000.891749
Filename
891749
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