Automatic detection of microcalcifications in digital mammography

Eric Y. Tao; Chester J. Ornes; Jack Sklansky

doi:10.1117/12.310877

24 June 1998 Automatic detection of microcalcifications in digital mammography

Eric Y. Tao, Chester J. Ornes, Jack Sklansky

Proceedings Volume 3338, Medical Imaging 1998: Image Processing; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.310877
Event: Medical Imaging '98, 1998, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

We devised, built and tested a detector and segmentor of microcalcifications in mammograms. Our segmentor includes preprocessing, extraction of 17 features, genetic solution of the best subset of six features, and a k-nearest neighbor classifier to suppress false candidates.

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Eric Y. Tao, Chester J. Ornes, and Jack Sklansky "Automatic detection of microcalcifications in digital mammography", Proc. SPIE 3338, Medical Imaging 1998: Image Processing, (24 June 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.310877

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