Effect of tissue thickness variation in volumetric breast density estimation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5116 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 659-666

  Alonzo Proulx, Olivier ^a   Tyson, Albert H ^a   Mawdsley, Gordon E ^a   Yaffe, Martin J ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast density; Breast thickness; Digital mammography; Optical photogrammetry

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY;

BREAST DENSITY; BREAST THICKNESS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY;

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC;

EID: 50949128364     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70538-3_91     Document Type: Conference Paper

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