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Clinical Trial
. 2006 Mar;25(3):273-82.
doi: 10.1109/TMI.2005.862741.

Volumetric breast density estimation from full-field digital mammograms

Saskia van Engeland  1 , Peter R Snoeren, Henkjan Huisman, Carla Boetes, Nico Karssemeijer
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Clinical Trial

Volumetric breast density estimation from full-field digital mammograms

Saskia van Engeland et al. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2006 Mar.

Abstract

A method is presented for estimation of dense breast tissue volume from mammograms obtained with full-field digital mammography (FFDM). The thickness of dense tissue mapping to a pixel is determined by using a physical model of image acquisition. This model is based on the assumption that the breast is composed of two types of tissue, fat and parenchyma. Effective linear attenuation coefficients of these tissues are derived from empirical data as a function of tube voltage (kVp), anode material, filtration, and compressed breast thickness. By employing these, tissue composition at a given pixel is computed after performing breast thickness compensation, using a reference value for fatty tissue determined by the maximum pixel value in the breast tissue projection. Validation has been performed using 22 FFDM cases acquired with a GE Senographe 2000D by comparing the volume estimates with volumes obtained by semi-automatic segmentation of breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. The correlation between MRI and mammography volumes was 0.94 on a per image basis and 0.97 on a per patient basis. Using the dense tissue volumes from MRI data as the gold standard, the average relative error of the volume estimates was 13.6%.

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