Computer-Aided Diagnosis for Breast Tumors by Using Vascularization of 3-D Power Doppler Ultrasound

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1607-1614

  Huang, Yu Len ^a   Kuo, Shou Jen ^b   Hsu, Chia Chia ^a   Tseng, Hsin Shun ^b   Hsiao, Yi Hsuan ^b   Chen, Dar Ren ^b  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Support vector machine; Three dimensional power Doppler; Tumor vascularity; Volume of interest

Indexed keywords

3-D ULTRASOUND; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; BREAST TUMOR; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; CROSS VALIDATION; DIAGNOSTIC PERFORMANCE; DOPPLER ULTRASOUND IMAGES; FLOW INDICES; NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; POWER DOPPLER; POWER DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHIES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; RECTANGULAR REGIONS; ROC CURVES; SVM MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL POWER DOPPLER; TUMOR SIZE; TUMOR VASCULARITY; VASCULARIZATION; VOLUME-OF-INTEREST;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; ONCOLOGY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TUMORS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID TUMOR; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349198930     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.05.014     Document Type: Article

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