Breast tissue composition and breast density measurements from ultrasound tomography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8320, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sak, Mark ^a   Duric, Neb ^a,c   Boyd, Norman ^b   Littrup, Peter ^a,c   West, Erik ^c   Li, Cuiping ^a,c  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Delphinus Medical Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Ultrasound tomography. breast density. breast cancer risk

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER RISK; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST TISSUES; FIBROGLANDULAR; IMAGING MODALITY; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; MAMMOGRAPHIC; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; SOUND SPEED; TISSUE COMPONENTS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTIONS; TOMOGRAPHIC; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; ULTRASOUND TOMOGRAPHY; VOLUMETRIC IMAGES;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; SEPARATION; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS; X RAY SCREENS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84860721249     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.912407     Document Type: Conference Paper

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