Development of a quantitative method for analysis of breast density based on three-dimensional breast MRI

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5253-5262

  Nie, Ke ^a   Chen, Jeon Hor ^a,b   Chan, Siwa ^a,b   Chau, Man Kwun I ^a,b   Yu, Hon J ^a   Bahri, Shadfar ^a   Tseng, Tiffany ^a   Nalcioglu, Orhan ^a   Su, Min Ying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Breast density; Breast MRI; Fibroglandular tissue segmentation; Fuzzy c means clustering segmentation; Inter operator variation; Intra

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DISEASES; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; RISK MANAGEMENT;

BREAST DENSITY; BREAST MRI; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; FUZZY C MEANS CLUSTERING; INTER-OPERATOR VARIATION; INTRA;

TISSUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAMMARY GLAND; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOFT TISSUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 56749179848     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3002306     Document Type: Article

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