Area and volumetric density estimation in processed full-field digital mammograms for risk assessment of breast cancer

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Cheddad, Abbas ^a   Czene, Kamila ^a   Eriksson, Mikael ^a   Li, Jingmei ^b   Easton, Douglas ^c   Hall, Per ^a   Humphreys, Keith ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; VOLUMETRY; ZNF365 GENE; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENETICS; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZNF365 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84908191276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110690     Document Type: Article

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