Breast percent density: Estimation on digital mammograms and central tomosynthesis projections

Radiology

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 40-49

  Bakic, Predrag R ^a   Carton, Ann Katherine ^a   Kontos, Despina ^a   Zhang, Cuiping ^a   Troxel, Andrea B ^a   Maidment, Andrew D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST PERCENT DENSITY; CENTRAL DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS PROJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENSITY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAM; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RISK FACTOR; X RAY PICTURE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67650097301     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2521081621     Document Type: Article

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