• DocumentCode
    3240947
  • Title

    Self-organizing maps for analyzing mammographic findings

  • Author

    Lo, Joseph Y. ; Floyd, Carey E., Jr.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Radiol., Duke Univ. Med. Center, Durham, NC, USA
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    9-12 Jun 1997
  • Firstpage
    2472
  • Abstract
    The purpose of this study is to analyze mammographic findings using self-organizing map artificial neural networks. Using two findings of patient age and mass margin extracted by radiologists, self-organizing maps were developed to analyze both the distribution and topology of the input findings. These results can help to explain the underlying nature of mammographic findings data, which may in turn help radiologists to improve breast cancer diagnosis and assist in the development of other neural networks
  • Keywords
    diagnostic radiography; medical diagnostic computing; patient diagnosis; pattern classification; self-organising feature maps; topology; breast cancer diagnosis; mammographic finding data analysis; mass margin; neural networks; patient age; radiology; self-organizing map; topology; Biomedical imaging; Breast cancer; Data mining; Lesions; Medical diagnostic imaging; Network topology; Neural networks; Neurons; Radiology; Self organizing feature maps;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Neural Networks,1997., International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Houston, TX
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4122-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICNN.1997.614546
  • Filename
    614546