Integrated density of a lesion: A quantitative, mammographically derived, invariable measure

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1805-1811

  Chang, Yuan Hsiang ^a   Good, Walter F ^a   Leader, Joseph K ^a   Wang, Xiao Hui ^a   Zheng, Bin ^a   Hardesty, Lara A ^a   Hakim, Christiane M ^a   Gur, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging; Mammography; Masses; Quantitative analysis; Reast

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; X RAYS;

DEGREE OF CORRELATIONS; FILM CHARACTERISTICS; INVARIANT PROPERTIES; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; MASSES; OBJECT DEFORMATION; REAST;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0038372045     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1582571     Document Type: Article

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