Automated analysis of contrast enhancement in breast MRI lesions using mean shift clustering for ROI selection

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 606-614

  Stoutjesdijk, Mark J ^a,b   Veltman, Jeroen ^a   Huisman, Henkjan ^a   Karssemeijer, Nico ^a   Barentsz, Jelle O ^a   Blickman, Johan G ^a   Boetes, Carla ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b IKAZIA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast; CAD; Clustering; Mean shift; MRI

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHMS; AREA UNDER CURVE; AUTOMATION; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 35248827323     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21026     Document Type: Article

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