Effect of the Enhancement Threshold on the Computer-Aided Detection of Breast Cancer using MRI

Academic Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1064-1069

  Levman, Jacob E D ^a   Causer, Petrina ^a   Warner, Ellen ^a   Martel, Anne L ^a  

^a Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast imaging; computer aided detection; enhancement threshold; magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 68049099354     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.03.018     Document Type: Article

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