Pattern classification of ShearWaveTM Elastography images for differential diagnosis between benign and malignant solid breast masses

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1069-1075

  Tozaki, Mitsuhiro ^a   Fukuma, Eisuke ^a  

^a KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast; Elastography; Shear wave; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

BENIGN LESION; BREAST; BREAST MASS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; EVALUATION CRITERIA; MALIGNANT LESION; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID BREAST MASS; TISSUE SAMPLING; TISSUE STIFFNESS; VERTICAL STRIPE; VISUAL EVALUATION; VISUAL PATTERN; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

DIAGNOSIS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; TISSUE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG MODULUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83155182677     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ar.2011.110276     Document Type: Article

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