Assessment of a fully automated, high-throughput mammographic density measurement tool for use with processed digital mammograms

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1037-1043

  Couwenberg, A M ^a   Verkooijen, H M ^a   Li, J ^b   Pijnappel, R M ^a   Charaghvandi, K R ^a   Hartman, M ^c   Van Gils, C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast cancer risk factors; Breast density; Mammography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; BREAST IMAGING REPORTING AND DATA SYSTEM DENSITY CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CUMULUS DENSITY ESTIMATION; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGEJ MODEL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PARITY; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VALIDATION PROCESS; AUTOMATION; BREAST TUMOR; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MAMMARY GLAND; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84904575967     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-014-0404-4     Document Type: Article

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