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Computer analysis of shadows on breast ultrasound improves lesion detection

Published in Cancer Weekly, September 23rd, 2003

Computer analysis of shadows on breast ultrasound improves lesion detection.

"Sonography is being considered for the screening of women at high risk for breast cancer. We are developing computerized detection methods to aid in the localization of lesions on breast ultrasound images," scientists in the United States report.

"The detection scheme presented here is based on the analysis of posterior acoustic shadowing, since posterior acoustic shadowing is observed for many malignant lesions. The method uses a nonlinear filtering technique based on the skewness of the gray level distribution within a kernel of image data," wrote K. Drukker and...

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