Academic Radiology
Volume 14, Issue 8 , Pages 928-939 , August 2007

Breast Ultrasound Computer-Aided Diagnosis Using BI-RADS Features

  • Wei-Chih Shen, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan 621, R.O.C.
    • ,
  • Ruey-Feng Chang, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan 621, R.O.C.
    • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 10617, R.O.C.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to R.-F.C.:
    • ,
  • Woo Kyung Moon, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology and Clinical Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
    • ,
  • Yi-Hong Chou, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chiun-Sheng Huang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Received 17 February 2007 ,Accepted 21 April 2007.

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PII: S1076-6332(07)00242-5

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.04.016

Academic Radiology
Volume 14, Issue 8 , Pages 928-939 , August 2007

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