Analysis of Elastographic and B-mode Features at Sonoelastography for Breast Tumor Classification

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1794-1802

  Moon, Woo Kyung ^a   Huang, Chiun Sheng ^b   Shen, Wei Chih ^c   Takada, Etsuo ^d   Chang, Ruey Feng ^e   Joe, Juliwati ^f   Nakajima, Michiko ^g   Kobayashi, Masayuki ^g  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

B mode ultrasound; BI RADS; Breast tumor; Elastography; Neural network

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE GRADIENT; BI-RADS; BREAST TUMOR; ELASTOGRAPHY; GRADIENT VARIANCE; MALIGNANT TUMORS; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MEAN AGES; NEURAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVE ANALYSIS; ROC CURVES; SOLID BREAST MASS; SONOELASTOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRAIN RATIOS; T-TESTS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; B SCAN; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID TUMOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74249093388     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2009.06.1094     Document Type: Article

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