Evaluation of the diagnostic performance of infrared imaging of the breast: A preliminary study

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Jane ^a,b   Chang, King Jen ^a   Chen, Chin Yu ^c   Chien, Kuo Liong ^d   Tsai, Yuh Show ^e   Wu, Yuh Ming ^a   Teng, Yu Chuan ^a   Shih, Tiffany Ting Fang ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; INFRARED IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELING; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CUT-OFF VALUE; DIAGNOSTIC PERFORMANCE; IR IMAGING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; MEAN AGES; MULTIVARIATE MODELS; ROC CURVES; SCORING SYSTEMS; UNIVARIATE; UNIVARIATE MODELS;

MEDICAL IMAGING; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFRARED RADIATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY;

BODY TEMPERATURE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFRARED RAYS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 76749149537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-9-3     Document Type: Article

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