A new step-wedge for the volumetric measurement of mammographic density

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4046 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-9

  Diffey, Jennifer ^a   Hufton, Alan ^a   Astley, Susan ^b  

^a CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DENSITY (OPTICAL); INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MAMMOGRAPHY; TISSUE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

MAMMOGRAPHIC DENSITY; STANDARD DEVIATION; VOLUMETRIC MEASUREMENT;

VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746348972     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11783237_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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