A calibration approach for single-energy x-ray absorptiometry method to provide absolute breast tissue composition accuracy for the long term

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7361 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 769-774

  Malkov, Serghei ^a   Wang, Jeff ^a   Duewer, Fred ^a   Shepherd, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; full field digital mammography; single x ray absorptiometry; volumetric breast density

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; BREAKPOINT; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TISSUES; CLINICAL CONDITIONS; CROSS CALIBRATION; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; RECALIBRATIONS; REGION OF INTEREST; STANDARD DEVIATION; STEPWISE APPROACH; THICKNESS CORRECTION; THICKNESS VARIATION; TISSUE COMPOSITION; VOLUMETRIC BREAST DENSITIES; X-RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY;

CALIBRATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; STATISTICS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TISSUE; X RAYS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84864858314     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31271-7_99     Document Type: Conference Paper

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