Quantification of Elastic Heterogeneity Using Contourlet-Based Texture Analysis in Shear-Wave Elastography for Breast Tumor Classification

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 588-600

  Zhang, Qi ^a   Xiao, Yang ^b   Chen, Shuai ^a   Wang, Congzhi ^b   Zheng, Hairong ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Breast tumor; Contourlet based texture analysis; Elastic heterogeneity; Shear wave elastography (SWE); Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXTURES; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS;

BENIGN AND MALIGNANT TUMORS; BREAST TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR CLASSIFICATIONS; ELASTIC HETEROGENEITY; LEAVE-ONE-OUT CROSS VALIDATIONS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

DIAGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTOURLET BASED TEXTURE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VALIDATION STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922660513     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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