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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing Proceedings, 2000. WCCC-ICSP 2000. 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5747-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICOSP.2000.891749
