Breast tumor classification using axial shear strain elastography: A feasibility study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 4809-4823

  Thitaikumar, Arun ^a,c   Mobbs, Louise M ^b   Kraemer Chant, Christina M ^b   Garra, Brian S ^b   Ophir, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION MAKING; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

AXIAL SHEAR; BREAST TUMORS; CHARACTERISTIC PATTERN; DATA SETS; ELASTOGRAM; ELASTOGRAMS; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IN-VIVO; NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE; SIMULATION STUDIES; STRAIN DISTRIBUTIONS; STRAIN REGIONS; STRAIN VALUES; TRAINING SETS;

SHEAR STRAIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 51849132089     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/17/022     Document Type: Article

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