Clinical MR-Mammography. Are Computer-Assisted Methods Superior to Visual or Manual Measurements for Curve Type Analysis? A Systematic Approach

Academic Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1070-1076

  Baltzer, Pascal Andreas Thomas ^a   Freiberg, Christian ^a   Beger, Sebastian ^a   Vag, Tibor ^a   Dietzel, Matthias ^a   Herzog, Aimee B ^a   Gajda, Mieczyslaw ^a   Camara, Oumar ^a   Kaiser, Werner A ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

breast MRI; CAD; Computer aided diagnosis; computer assisted diagnosis; curve type analysis; dynamic enhancement pattern; kinetics; sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE MAMMOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67849103576     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.03.017     Document Type: Article

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