Automated Breast Segmentation of Fat and Water MR Images Using Dynamic Programming

Academic Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 139-148

  Rosado Toro, José A ^a   Barr, Tomoe ^a   Galons, Jean Philippe ^b   Marron, Marilyn T ^c   Stopeck, Alison ^b,c   Thomson, Cynthia ^c   Thompson, Patricia ^b,c   Carroll, Danielle ^b   Wolf, Eszter ^b   Altbach, María I ^b   Rodríguez, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated breast segmentation; Breast MRI; Dynamic programming; Fat water MRI; K means++

Indexed keywords

FAT; TRACER; WATER;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST DENSITY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PECTORAL MUSCLE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BODY WATER; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHMS; BODY WATER; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROGRAMMING, LINEAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84920281243     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2014.09.015     Document Type: Article

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