Inter-observer agreement according to three methods of evaluating mammographic density and parenchymal pattern in a case control study: Impact on relative risk of breast cancer

BMC Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Winkel, Rikke Rass ^a   von Euler Chelpin, My ^b   Nielsen, Mads ^b,c   Diao, Pengfei ^b   Nielsen, Michael Bachmann ^a   Uldall, Wei Yao ^a   Vejborg, Ilse ^a  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Biomediq   (Denmark)

Author keywords

BI RADS; Breast cancer; Breast cancer risk; Case control study; Interactive threshold technique; Mammographic breast density; Mammographic parenchymal patterns; Reproducibility; Tab r

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST IMAGING REPORTING AND DATA SYSTEM; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARENCHYMA; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; TABAR CLASSIFICATION; ABNORMALITIES; BREAST TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MAMMARY GLAND; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84927750886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-015-1256-3     Document Type: Article

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