Automatic detection of microcalcifications in digital mammography
Eric Tao, Chester J. Ornes, Jack Sklansky · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1998
We devised, built and tested a detector and segmentor of microcalcifications in mammograms. Our segmentor includes preprocessing, extraction of 17 features, genetic solution of the best subset of six features, and a k-nearest neighbor classifier to suppress false candidates.