Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 2 , Pages 145-162 , June 2006

Mammographic masses characterization based on localized texture and dataset fractal analysis using linear, neural and support vector machine classifiers

  • Michael E. Mavroforakis

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    • University of Athens, Informatics Department, TYPA buildings, University Campus, 15771 Athens, Greece
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: 43 Knossou Street, P.O. 16561, Glyfada, Athens, Greece. Tel.: +30 210 9648663; fax: +30 210 9313631.
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  • Harris V. Georgiou

      Affiliations

    • University of Athens, Informatics Department, TYPA buildings, University Campus, 15771 Athens, Greece
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  • Nikos Dimitropoulos

      Affiliations

    • Medical Imaging Department, EUROMEDICA Medical Center, 2 Mesogeion ave, Athens, Greece
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  • Dionisis Cavouras

      Affiliations

    • Medical Instruments Technology Department, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Egaleo 12210, Greece
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  • Sergios Theodoridis

      Affiliations

    • University of Athens, Informatics Department, TYPA buildings, University Campus, 15771 Athens, Greece

Received 10 October 2005 ,Revised 23 March 2006 ,Accepted 23 March 2006.

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
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