Quantitative assessment of breast density from digitized mammograms into Tabar's patterns

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 5843-5857

  Jamal, N ^a,b   Ng, K H ^b   Looi, L M ^b   McLean, D ^c,d   Zulfiqar, A ^e   Tan, S P ^e   Liew, W F ^e   Shantini, A ^f   Ranganathan, S ^b  

^a MALAYSIAN NUCLEAR AGENCY   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA MEDICAL CENTER   (Malaysia)

^f HOSPITAL KUALA LUMPUR   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TISSUE;

BREAST DENSITY; DIGITIZED MAMMOGRAM; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; KAPPA COEFFICIENTS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGIST;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33846867035     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/22/008     Document Type: Article

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