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pubmed-article:17281707pubmed:abstractTextThe appearance of cluster of microcalcifications in mammography or sonography is an important indicator for malignancy. Microcalcifications are calcium deposits, which can be identified as tiny areas that are slightly brighter than surrounding tissue. Detection of mammographic microcalcification has been proposed in many studies. Since a microcalcification cluster is a three-dimensional (3-D) entity, its projection onto a two-dimensional (2-D) image results in a loss of spatial information and may also cause superimposition of individual calcifications within the cluster. This paper aims to use the 3-D ultrasound to determine microcalcifications. In each slice, the proposed method adopts the top-hat filter to find bright spots, and employs four 2-D criteria to select the spots as candidate microcalcifications. Finally, spots appearing in sequent slices at the same position are considered as a microcalcification. We suggest using a computer automatically to detect the microcalcification being feasible and microcalcifications being a very important criterion of malignancy on future developing the computer-aided diagnosis for ultrasound. In the future, this technique can be adopted in a computer-aided diagnosis system combined with other diagnosis features for improving the diagnosis performance.lld:pubmed
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pubmed-article:17281707pubmed:authorpubmed-author:MoonW KWKlld:pubmed
pubmed-article:17281707pubmed:authorpubmed-author:HuangS FSFlld:pubmed
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pubmed-article:17281707pubmed:authorpubmed-author:WangL PLPlld:pubmed
pubmed-article:17281707pubmed:authorpubmed-author:ChangR FRFlld:pubmed
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pubmed-article:17281707pubmed:articleTitleMicrocalcification detection in 3-d breast ultrasound.lld:pubmed
pubmed-article:17281707pubmed:affiliationDepartment of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan.lld:pubmed
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