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Diagnostic and therapeutic applications of breast imaging /

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This book presents the established and currently researched diagnostic and therapeutic imaging techniques used for breast cancer. Section I is a review of the principles, applications, and recent advances of breast imagining modalities. Section II focuses on breast pathologies and presents the use o...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SPIE (Society)
Other Authors: Suri, Jasjit S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bellingham, Wash. : SPIE Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Breast Neoplasms > diagnosis.
Diagnostic Imaging.
Breast Neoplasms > therapy.
Breast > Imaging.
Breast > Cancer > Diagnosis.
Breast > Radiography.
Breast > Cancer > Treatment.
Table of Contents:
  • Breast imaging modalities : principles, applications, and recent advances
  • Breast cancer subgross morphology parameters and their prognostic and predictive power
  • Diagnostic mammography in breast imaging
  • Role of mammography in screening of breast diseases : is it still a gold standard?
  • Lossless compression of digital mammographic images
  • Image processing and pattern classification techniques for the detection of architectural distortion in prior mammograms of interval-cancer cases
  • Evaluating the performance of digital mammography systems : physical and psychophysical characterization
  • Clinical trial and data mining techniques based evaluation of the biofield diagnostic system for breast cancer detection
  • Breast ultrasound
  • Role of ultrasound in the diagnosis of breast diseases
  • Breast MRI and CT
  • Role of MRI in the diagnosis of breast diseases
  • Color segmentation and fractal analysis (FA) of breast thermograms
  • Automatic identification of breast cancer using texture features from infrared thermogram
  • Imaging for autologous breast reconstruction
  • Breast cancer treatment and nano medicine.