Density is in the eye of the beholder: Visual versus semi-automated assessment of breast density on standard mammograms

Insights into Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 91-99

  Lobbes, M B I ^a   Cleutjens, J P M ^a   Lima Passos, V ^b   Frotscher, C ^a   Lahaye, M J ^a   Keymeulen, K B M I ^a   Beets Tan, R G ^a   Wildberger, J ^a,c   Boetes, C ^a,c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast density; Breast neoplasms; Mammography; Threshold method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865629791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18694101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13244-011-0139-7     Document Type: Article

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