Computer-based margin analysis of breast sonography for differentiating malignant and benign masses

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1201-1209

  Sehgal, Chandra M ^a,b   Cary, Theodore W ^a   Kangas, Sarah A ^a   Weinstein, Susan P ^a   Schultz, Susan M ^a   Arger, Peter H ^a   Conant, Emily F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; Breast neoplasm; Breast sonography; Computer aided diagnosis; Sonography

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TISSUE; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

BREAST SONOGRAPHY; SONOGRAPHIC IMAGES;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY;

EID: 4444375415     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2004.23.9.1201     Document Type: Article

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