Impact of skin removal on quantitative measurement of breast density using MRI

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 227-233

  Nie, Ke ^a   Chang, Daniel ^a   Chen, Jeon Hor ^a,b   Shih, Tzu Ching ^a,b   Hsu, Chieh Chih ^b   Nalcioglu, Orhan ^a   Su, Min Ying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

3D breast MRI; Quantitative breast density; Skin segmentation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; TISSUE;

BREAST DENSITY; BREAST MRI; CANCER RISK ASSESSMENTS; CLINICAL INVESTIGATION; DYNAMIC SEARCHING ALGORITHMS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SKIN SEGMENTATION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 73649119190     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3271353     Document Type: Article

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