First evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of an automated 3D ultrasound system in a breast screening setting

Anticancer Research

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2569-2574

  Stöblen, Frank ^a   Landt, Solveig ^b   Stelkens Gebhardt, Ruth ^a   Sehouli, Jalid ^c   Rezai, Mahdi ^d   Kümmel, Sherko ^a  

^a KLINIKEN ESSEN MITTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Breast Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated 3D imaging; Breast cancer; Mammography; Screening; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; AUTOMATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79961176484     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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