Computer Aided Breast Cancer Diagnosis.

Abstract

The long range goal of this project is to improve the accuracy and consistency of breast cancer diagnosis by developing a Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system for early prediction of breast cancer from the patients' mammographic findings and medical history. In this progress period we have developed an ANN to predict biopsy outcome from mammographic and history findings. In the first year of the grant we have (l)published the preliminary data presented in the original proposal, (2)acquired 260 cases using the standardized BI-RADS reporting system and published this study, (3)conducted a small prospective study, (4)examined the inter- and intra- observer variability of the reporting lexicon, and (5)investigated reducing the number of active input features to the network and published this work. A related study was conducted to examine the sensitivity of the system to the techniques used for sampling the data. All of this work has been specifically directed toward the first specific aim of the proposal.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA307636

Entities

People

  • Carey E. Floyd Jr.

Organizations

  • Duke University Hospital

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biomedical Research
  • Breast Cancer
  • Cancer
  • Computer-Aided Diagnosis
  • Computers
  • Congress
  • Embolism And Thrombosis
  • Genetic Algorithms
  • Laboratory Animals
  • Mammography
  • Materials
  • Neoplasms
  • Neural Networks
  • Observers
  • Radiology
  • Sampling
  • Sensitivity

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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  • Oncology and Biomarker-Based Cancer Detection.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.
  • Theoretical Analysis.