Solid breast masses: Classification with computer-aided analysis of continuous US images obtained with probe compression

Radiology

Volumn 236, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 458-464

  Moon, Woo Kyung ^a,b   Chang, Ruey Feng ^c   Chen, Chii Jen ^c   Chen, Dar Ren ^d   Chen, Wei Liang ^c  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SOLID TUMOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 22544473873     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2362041095     Document Type: Article

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