Automatic identification and classification of characteristic kinetic curves of breast lesions on DCE-MRI

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2878-2887

  Chen, Weijie ^a   Giger, Maryellen L ^a   Bick, Ulrich ^b   Newstead, Gillian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast MRI; Computer aided diagnosis; DCE MRI; Fuzzy c means; Kinetic curve

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

BREAST MRI; CLASSIFICATION OF CHARACTERISTICS; DCE-MRI; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUZZY C MEAN; INTRA-OBSERVER VARIABILITY; KINETIC CURVES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST LESION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINETICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

EID: 33746617896     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2210568     Document Type: Article

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