Optimal clustering of kinetic patterns on malignant breast lesions: Comparison between K-means clustering and three-time-points method in dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2089-2093

  Lee, S H ^a   Kim, J H ^a,b   Kim, K G ^a,b   Park, J S ^b   Park, S J ^a   Moon, W K ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

3TP method; Breast cancer; DCE MRI; K means clustering; Kinetics; Visualization

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DATA ACQUISITION; DIAGNOSIS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOLOGY; TUMORS;

INTERNAL KINETIC HETEROGENEITY; MALIGNANT BREAST LESIONS; OPTIMAL CLUSTERING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 57649231151     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4352733     Document Type: Conference Paper

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