Volumetric breast density evaluation from ultrasound tomography images

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3988-3997

  Glide Hurst, Carri K ^a   Duric, Neb ^b   Littrup, Peter ^b  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast density; Mammographic percent density; Sound speed; Ultrasound tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPEED; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; X RAY SCREENS;

BREAST DENSITY; MAMMOGRAM SEGMENTATIONS; MAMMOGRAPHIC; MAMMOGRAPHIC BREAST DENSITIES; SEMI-AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; SOUND SPEED; ULTRASOUND TOMOGRAPHY; VOLUMETRIC BREAST DENSITIES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; VOLUMETRY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 50449083179     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2964092     Document Type: Article

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