Axial-shear strain imaging for differentiating benign and malignant breast masses

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1813-1824

  Xu, Haiyan ^a,b   Rao, Min ^a   Varghese, Tomy ^a,b   Sommer, Amy ^a   Baker, Sara ^c   Hall, Timothy J ^a   Sisney, Gale A ^c   Burnside, Elizabeth S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Elasticity; Elasticity imaging; Elastography; Shear strain; Strain; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANTARES; APPLIED STRAIN; AREA FEATURE; AXIAL STRAIN; B-MODE IMAGES; BREAST CANCER; BREAST MASS; CLINICAL SCANNERS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-CORRELATION ALGORITHM; DIAGNOSTIC STANDARD; ELASTICITY IMAGING; ELASTOGRAPHY; IN-VIVO; LESION SIZE; LINEAR ARRAY TRANSDUCERS; LINEAR CLASSIFIERS; MALIGNANT MASS; MALIGNANT TUMORS; NORMALIZED AREA; PIXEL VALUES; RADIO-FREQUENCY DATUM; RECEIVER OPERATOR CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SCATTER PLOTS; SIEMENS; STRAIN CONTRAST; STRAIN DISTRIBUTIONS; STRAIN IMAGES; STRAIN IMAGING; ULTRASOUND; UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN;

ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

SHEAR STRAIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBROADENOMA; HUMANS; PALPATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; ROC CURVE; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 77958150993     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.07.008     Document Type: Article

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