Improved Lesion Detection in MR Mammography. Three-Dimensional Segmentation, Moving Voxel Sampling, and Normalized Maximum Intensity-Time Ratio Entropy

Academic Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 151-161

  Ertaş, Gökhan ^a   Gülçür, H Özcan ^a   Tunaci, Mehtap ^b  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

lesion segmentation; MR mammogram; nMITR entropy; quantitative diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST LESION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; ROC CURVE;

EID: 33846245146     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

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