Development of a peripheral thickness estimation method for volumetric breast density measurements in mammography using a 3D finite element breast model

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6136 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 467-473

  Alonzo Proulx, Olivier ^a   Mainprize, James G ^a   Packard, Nathan J ^b   Boone, John M ^b   Al Mayah, Adil ^c   Brock, Kristy ^c   Yaffe, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

digital mammography; periphery detection; volumetric breast density

Indexed keywords

3D FINITE ELEMENT; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST IMAGES; CIRCULAR SHAPE; CT DATA; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAMS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; MAMMOGRAPHIC; PERCENTAGE POINTS; PHYSICAL MODEL; RADIAL LINE; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; THICKNESS ESTIMATION;

ABERRATIONS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAMMOGRAPHY; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; X RAY SCREENS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77954651008     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13666-5_63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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