Saturday, 13 March 2010

Selection of diagnostic features on breast MRI to differentiate between malignant and benign lesions using computer-aided diagnosis: differences in le

Selection of diagnostic features on breast MRI to differentiate between malignant and benign lesions using computer-aided diagnosis: differences in lesions presenting as mass and non-mass-like enhancement
Dustin Newell, Ke Nie, Jeon-Hor Chen, Chieh-Chih Hsu, Hon J. Yu, Orhan Nalcioglu & Min-Ying Su
Eur Radiol (2010) 20: 771–781

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This study demonstrated that it is possible to build a quantitative diagnostic model for diagnosing mass- type lesions with a high sensitivity (0.97) and a reasonable specificity (0.80). However, further improvement is needed for diagnosis of lesions that present as non-mass-like enhancement

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