Improved lesion detection in MR mammography: Three-dimensional segmentation, moving voxel sampling, and normalized maximum intensity-time ratio entropy

Ertas G., Guelcuer O., Tunaci M.

ACADEMIC RADIOLOGY, cilt.14, sa.2, ss.151-161, 2007 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 14 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2007
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.acra.2006.11.003
  • Dergi Adı: ACADEMIC RADIOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.151-161
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Rationale and Objectives. The objective of this work was to develop a quantitative method for improving lesion detection in dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance mammography (DCEMRM). For this purpose, we segmented and analyzed suspicious regions according to their contrast enhancement dynamics, generated a normalized maximum intensity-time ratio (nMITR) projection, and explored it to extract important features, to improve accuracy and reproducibility of detection.