Heterogeneity of focal breast lesions and surrounding tissue assessed by mammographic texture analysis: Preliminary evidence of an association with tumor invasion and estrogen receptor status

Frontiers in Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue OCT, 2011, Pages

  Ganeshan, Balaji ^a   Strukowska, Olga ^b   Skogen, Karoline ^a   Young, Rupert ^a   Chatwin, Chris ^a   Miles, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b Worthing Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasm diagnosis; Computed assisted image processing; Ductal carcinoma in situ; Heterogeneity; Hormone receptor; Mammography; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877578731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2234943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2011.00033     Document Type: Article

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