In vitro diagnosis of axillary lymph node metastases in breast cancer by spectrum analysis of radio frequency echo signals

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1151-1159

  Tateishi, Tsutomu ^a   MacHi, Junji ^a   Feleppa, Ernest J ^b   Oishi, Robert ^a   Jucha, Jerry ^c   Yanagihara, Eugene ^d   McCarthy, Laurence J ^d   Noritomi, Tomoaki ^e   Shirouzu, Kazuo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b RIVERSIDE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d KUAKINI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axillary lymph node dissection; Axillary lymph node metastasis; B mode ultrasound imaging; Breast cancer; Radio frequency echo signals; Spectrum analysis; Ultrasonic tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; RADIO FREQUENCY ECHO SIGNALS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC (ROC) ANALYSIS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; B SCAN; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032191162     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(98)00100-8     Document Type: Article

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