Showing posts with label Quantitative morphology and texture features. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quantitative morphology and texture features. Show all posts

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