Segmentation of suspicious lesions in dynamic, contrast-enhanced breast MR images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6514, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Bülow, Thomas ^a   Meinel, Lina Arbash ^b,c   Wiemker, Rafael ^a   Kose, Ursula ^d   Shimauchi, Akiko ^c   Newstead, Gillian ^c  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast MR; Dynamic contrast enhanced breast MR; Lesion segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS;

BREAST MR; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED BREAST MR; LESION SEGMENTATION; POST-PROCESSING STEP; SEGMENTED AREA; SUBTRACTION IMAGE;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 35248866597     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.706537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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