Academic Radiology
Volume 14, Issue 8 , Pages 917-927 , August 2007

Interactive Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Masses: Computerized Selection of Visually Similar Image Sets From a Reference Library

Received 27 March 2007 ,Accepted 18 April 2007.

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1 Supported in part by Grants CA77850 and CA101733 to the University of Pittsburgh from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.

PII: S1076-6332(07)00204-8

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.04.012

Academic Radiology
Volume 14, Issue 8 , Pages 917-927 , August 2007

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