• DocumentCode
    3745141
  • Title

    Automated skin thickening extraction in post radiotherapy mammograms via feedforward neural networks using histogram based segmentation and continuous hidden Markov model generated features

  • Author

    L. Barinov;L. Paster;N. Yue;Z. Xiao;Q. Huang;S. Goyal

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Radiation Oncology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey & Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The purpose of this study is to establish an automated technique that accurately and effectively characterizes skin thickening in mammograms after breast conserving surgery and radiation therapy (BCS+RT).
  • Keywords
    "Skin","Mammography","Breast","Feature extraction","Hidden Markov models","Radiation effects","Neural networks"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB), 2015 IEEE
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SPMB.2015.7405459
  • Filename
    7405459