Preliminary evaluation of the publicly available Laboratory for Breast Radiodensity Assessment (LIBRA) software tool: Comparison of fully automated area and volumetric density measures in a case-control study with digital mammography

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Keller, Brad M ^a   Chen, Jinbo ^b   Daye, Dania ^a   Conant, Emily F ^a   Kontos, Despina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ABNORMALITIES; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; MAMMARY GLAND; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BREAST; BREAST DENSITY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84958928345     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13058-015-0626-8     Document Type: Article

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