Automated fibroglandular tissue segmentation and volumetric density estimation in breast MRI using an atlas-aided fuzzy C-means method

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlas; Breast; Fibroglandular tissue; Fuzzy c means (fcm); Magnetic resonance imaging (mri); Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DISEASES; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LARGE DATASET; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; TISSUE;

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGIES; ATLAS; BREAST; BREAST IMAGING REPORTING AND DATA SYSTEMS; BREAST MAGNETIC-RESONANCE IMAGING; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; FUZZY C MEAN; PEARSON'S CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATION; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; BREAST SEGMENTATION; CANCER RISK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; FUZZY C MEANS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RADIOLOGIST; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRAINING; VALIDATION PROCESS; CYTOLOGY; FUZZY LOGIC; IMAGE PROCESSING;

AUTOMATION; BREAST; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84890080605     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4829496     Document Type: Article

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