Meanings
plural microclassifications
- classification on a very small scale
When a large number of microclassification cells form a dense mass clustered in a small area, they are categorized as malignant.[ 7 ] Masses in benign and malignant cases of mammograms have distinct and meaningful differences in terms of their shape and formation.
2015, Alireza Shirazinodeh et al., “Detection and classification of Breast Cancer in Wavelet Sub-bands of Fractal Segmented Cancerous Zones”, in Journal of Medical Signals and Sensors, volume 5
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