Spatial registration of temporally separated whole breast 3D ultrasound images

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4288-4300

  Narayanasamy, Ganesh ^a   Lecarpentier, Gerald L ^a   Roubidoux, Marilyn ^a   Fowlkes, J Brian ^a   Schott, Anne F ^a   Carson, Paul L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast ultrasound; Cancer; Chemotherapy monitoring; Diagnosis; Doppler; Image fusion; Image processing; Image registration; Medical imaging; Validation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; CHEMOTHERAPY; COST FUNCTIONS; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE REGISTRATION; INTERPOLATION; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

BREAST CANCER SCREENING; BREAST ULTRASOUND; CANCER; DOPPLER; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS; NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPIES; UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN; VALIDATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; AUTOMATION; BLOOD VESSELS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION THEORY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 69549138147     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3193678     Document Type: Article

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