Volumetric breast density estimation from full-field digital mammograms

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 273-282

  Van Engeland, Saskia ^a   Snoeren, Peter R ^a   Huisman, Henkjan ^a   Boetes, Caria ^a   Karssemeijer, Nico ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Full field digital mammograms; Mammography; MRI; Physical model of image acquisition; Validation; Volumetric breast density

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; ERRORS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TISSUE;

FULL-FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY (FFDM); PHYSICAL MODEL OF IMAGE ACQUISITION; VALIDATION; VOLUMETRIC BREAST DENSITY;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33644610993     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.862741     Document Type: Article

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