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Breast Cancer
Study shows that combining data improves accuracy of breast cancer diagnosis
September 29th, 2005
Combining diagnostic information to improve accuracy of breast cancer diagnosis was the focus of a recent study from the United States. "The compound probability density function (pdf) was investigated for the ability of its parameters to classify masses in ultrasonic B scan breast images. Results of 198 images (29 malignant and 70 benign cases and two images per case) were reported and compared to the classification performance reported by" P. M. Shankar and colleagues "earlier in the journal" Physics in Medicine and Biology." "A new parameter, the speckle factor, calculated from the parameters of the compound pdf was explored to separate...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-09-29)
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