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Detection of Architectural Distortion in Prior Mammograms via Analysis of Oriented Patterns
Published on: August 30, 2013
Abstract:
A clustering technique is described, the objective of which is to detect deviant subpopulations which deviate from a primary subpopulation in1 a well defined direction. The distributions of the primary and deviant subpopulations and the number of deviant subpopulations are initially unknown. Each deviant subpopulation is to be identified by means of a linear scale (an affine function of the observed variables) which distinguishes its members from those of the primary subpopulation. The approach consists of the following three steps: (1) the main cluster of sample points is identified; (2) the directions are determined in which there are the greatest number of outliers from the main cluster; (3) the statistical stability of each supposed outlier direction is tested. Our algorithm has been tested on both manufactured data and on real (MMPI) data.
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