Three comparative approaches for breast density estimation in digital and screen film mammograms

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 4853-4856

  Chang, Ruey Feng ^a   Chang Chien, Kuang Che ^a   Takada, Etsuo ^b   Suri, Jasjit S ^c,d   Moon, Woo Kyung ^e   Wu, Jeffery H K ^f   Cho, Nariya ^e   Wang, Yi Fa ^a   Chen, Dar Ren ^f  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Biomedical Technologies Inc   (United States)

^d Biomedical Research Institute   (United States)

^e Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^f CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Breast density; Dense; Digital; Fatty; Grandular; Hentrogeneous; Mammography; Physics based; Pixel; Region; Screen film

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISKS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PIXELS; RADIOLOGY; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST DENSITY; SCREEN-FILM;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; X RAY FILM;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK; X-RAY FILM; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 34047128645     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260218     Document Type: Conference Paper

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