A level set based framework for quantitative evaluation of breast tissue density from MRI data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Ivanovska, Tatyana ^a   Laqua, René ^a   Wang, Lei ^b   Liebscher, Volkmar ^c   Völzke, Henry ^a   Hegenscheid, Katrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOBUTROL;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DENSITY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; AGED; ALGORITHM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84912572522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112709     Document Type: Article

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