Postmortem validation of breast density using dual-energy mammography

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Molloi, Sabee ^a   Ducote, Justin L ^a   Ding, Huanjun ^a   Feig, Stephen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

breast density; breast imaging; cancer; dual energy; mammography

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; FUZZY CLUSTERING; GRAPHIC METHODS; MAMMOGRAPHY;

BREAST DENSITY; BREAST DENSITY ESTIMATION; BREAST IMAGING; CANCER; DUAL ENERGY; DUAL-ENERGY MAMMOGRAPHIES; FUZZY C-MEAN ALGORITHM; HISTOGRAM THRESHOLDING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

LIPID; PROTEIN; WATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BREAST DENSITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; FUZZY SYSTEM; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MAMMARY GLAND FUNCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; PROTEIN CONTENT; THICKNESS; ALGORITHM; BREAST TUMOR; CALIBRATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DEVICES; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMARY GLAND; MAMMOGRAPHY; ORGAN SIZE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIBRATION; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; ORGAN SIZE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 84905492686     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4890295     Document Type: Article

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