Is volumetric breast density related to body mass index, body fat mass, waist-hip ratio, age and ethnicity for Malaysian women?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8539 LNCS, Issue , 2014, Pages 251-256

  Zakariyah, Norhasnah ^a   Ng, Kwan Hoong ^a   Lau, Susie ^a   Rahmat, Kartini ^a   Fadzli, Farhana ^a   Taib, Nur Aishah Mohd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Body fat mass; body mass index; breast cancer; mammography; obesity; volumetric breast density; waist hip ratio

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; DISEASES; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUTRITION;

BODY FATS; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST CANCER; OBESITY; VOLUMETRIC BREAST DENSITIES; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

HEALTH;

EID: 84903957270     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07887-8_36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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