Automated chest wall line detection for whole-breast segmentation in sagittal breast MR images

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Shandong ^a   Weinstein, Susan P ^a   Conant, Emily F ^a   Schnall, Mitchell D ^a   Kontos, Despina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

breast; chest wall line; edge extraction; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; DISEASES; EDGE DETECTION; EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; TISSUE;

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGIES; BREAST; BREAST CANCER RISK ASSESSMENTS; BREAST IMAGING REPORTING AND DATA SYSTEMS; BREAST MAGNETIC-RESONANCE IMAGING; CHEST WALL; DYNAMIC TIME WARPING ALGORITHMS; EDGE EXTRACTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORAX WALL; VALIDATION STUDY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BREAST; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; THORACIC WALL;

EID: 84876173859     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4793255     Document Type: Article

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