A fully automatic multiscale 3-dimensional hessian-based algorithm for vessel detection in breast DCE-MRI

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 705-710

  Vignati, Anna ^a   Giannini, Valentina ^a   Bert, Alberto ^b   Borrelli, Pasquale ^c   De Luca, Massimo ^a   Martincich, Laura ^a   Sardanelli, Francesco ^d,e   Regge, Daniele ^a  

^a CANDIOLO CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b Im3D SpA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

Author keywords

breast cancer; computer aided diagnosis; DCE MRI; vessel detection algorithm

Indexed keywords

GADOBENATE DIMEGLUMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST EXAMINATION; BREAST LESION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; COVARIANCE; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED MAGNETIC IMAGING; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MULTISCALE THREE DIMENSIONAL HESSIAN BASED ALGORITHM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RANK SUM TEST;

EID: 84870062604     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e31826dc3a4     Document Type: Article

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