Mammographic breast density: Comparison of methods for quantitative evaluation

Radiology

Volumn 275, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 356-365

  Morrish, Oliver W E ^a   Tucker, Lorraine ^b   Black, Richard ^a   Willsher, Paula ^a   Duffy, Stephen W ^c   Gilbert, Fiona J ^b  

^a CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST VOLUME; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; BREAST; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; BREAST; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84928994917     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.14141508     Document Type: Article

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