Title :
Computerized mammographic lesion description
Author :
Velthuizen, Robert P. ; Gaviria, Jorge I.
Author_Institution :
Res. Inst., Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
Abstract :
This is the first report on our work to use features extracted from mammograms to classify masses by shape or by malignancy, while further study is clearly needed, our initial results are very promising
Keywords :
cancer; image classification; mammography; medical image processing; computerized mammographic lesion description; malignancy; mammograms; masses; shape; Biomedical imaging; Breast cancer; Electronic mail; Feature extraction; Image segmentation; Lesions; Mammography; Pattern recognition; Shape; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5674-8
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1999.804187
