A Quantitative Description of the Percentage of Breast Density Measurement Using Full-field Digital Mammography

Academic Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 556-564

  Heine, John J ^a   Cao, Ke ^a   Rollison, Dana E ^a   Tiffenberg, Gail ^a   Thomas, Jerry A ^b  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Christi Regional Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer risk; Breast density; Calibration; Full field digital mammography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST CANCER; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; OPERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK; X RAY;

BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79953297262     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2010.12.015     Document Type: Article

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