AutoDensity: An automated method to measure mammographic breast density that predicts breast cancer risk and screening outcomes

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Nickson, Carolyn ^a   Arzhaeva, Yulia ^b   Aitken, Zoe ^a   Elgindy, Tarek ^b   Buckley, Mitchell ^c   Li, Min ^a   English, Dallas R ^a,d   Kavanagh, Anne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DENSITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; VALIDITY;

EID: 85010748503     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr3474     Document Type: Article

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