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Algorithms
Studies from University of Pisa provide new data on algorithms
January 15th, 2008
According to a study from Pisa, Italy, "Computerized methods have recently shown a great potential in providing radiologists with a second opinion about the visual diagnosis of the malignancy of mammographic masses. The computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system we developed for the mass characterization is mainly based on a segmentation algorithm and on the neural classification of several features computed on the segmented mass." "Mass-segmentation plays a key role in most computerized systems. Our technique is a gradient-based one, showing the main characteristic that no free parameters have been evaluated on the data set used in this analysis, thus it can directly be...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-01-15)
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