A fully automatic lesion detection method for DCE-MRI fat-suppressed breast images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7260, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Vignati, Anna ^a   Giannini, Valentina ^a   Bert, Alberto ^b   Deluca, Massimo ^a   Morra, Lia ^b   Persano, Diego ^b   Martincich, Laura ^c   Regge, Daniele ^c  

^a ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^b im3D Research and Development Dept   (Italy)

^c IRCC   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic segmentation; Breast cancer; CAD; DCE MRI; Fat suppression

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; BREAST CANCER; CAD; DCE-MRI; FAT SUPPRESSION;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 66749127393     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.811526     Document Type: Conference Paper

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