Automated assessment of breast tissue density in non-contrast 3D CT images without image segmentation based on a deep CNN.
Xiangrong ZhouTakuya KanoHiromi KoyasuShuo LiXinxin ZhouTakeshi HaraMasayuki MatsuoHiroshi FujitaPublished in: Medical Imaging: Computer-Aided Diagnosis (2017)
Keyphrases
- breast tissue
- image segmentation
- breast cancer
- mammographic images
- discriminating power
- tissue classification
- cad systems
- textural features
- tissue characterization
- quantitative evaluation
- markov random field
- image analysis
- gray level
- medical imaging
- automated analysis
- graph cuts
- multiscale
- image processing
- computer aided
- texture analysis
- level set
- computer vision
- segmentation algorithm
- quality assessment
- active contours