Age- and race-dependence of the fibroglandular breast density analyzed on 3D MRI

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2770-2776

  Nie, Ke ^a   Su, Min Ying ^a   Chau, Man Kwun ^a,b   Chan, Siwa ^a,b   Nguyen, Hoanglong ^a   Tseng, Tiffany ^a   Huang, Yuhong ^c   McLaren, Christine E ^d   Nalcioglu, Orhan ^a   Chen, Jeon Hor ^a,b,c  

^a Tu and Yuen Center for Functional Onco Imaging   (United States)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast segmentation; Fibroglandular tissue segmentation; Fuzzy C means; Quantitative breast density; Three dimensional MRI

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COPYING; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BREAST DENSITY; BREAST SEGMENTATION; FIBROGLANDULAR; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; FUZZY C MEAN; FUZZY C-MEANS ALGORITHMS; RACIAL DIFFERENCE; SQUARE ROOTS;

TISSUE;

EID: 77953522850     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3426317     Document Type: Article

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