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
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"
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB), 2015 IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/SPMB.2015.7405459
