Breast tissue composition and susceptibility to breast cancer

NF Boyd, LJ Martin, M Bronskill, MJ Yaffe… - Journal of the …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Breast density, as assessed by mammography, reflects breast tissue composition. Breast
epithelium and stroma attenuate x-rays more than fat and thus appear light on …

Mammographic density. Measurement of mammographic density

MJ Yaffe - Breast Cancer Research, 2008 - Springer
Mammographic density has been strongly associated with increased risk of breast cancer.
Furthermore, density is inversely correlated with the accuracy of mammography and …

Three‐dimensional microwave imaging of realistic numerical breast phantoms via a multiple‐frequency inverse scattering technique

JD Shea, P Kosmas, SC Hagness… - Medical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Breast density measurement has the potential to play an important role in
individualized breast cancer risk assessment and prevention decisions. Routine evaluation …

Estimation of breast percent density in raw and processed full field digital mammography images via adaptive fuzzy c‐means clustering and support vector machine …

BM Keller, DL Nathan, Y Wang, Y Zheng… - Medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The amount of fibroglandular tissue content in the breast as estimated
mammographically, commonly referred to as breast percent density (PD%), is one of the …

Automated mammographic breast density estimation using a fully convolutional network

J Lee, RM Nishikawa - Medical physics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The purpose of this study was to develop a fully automated algorithm for
mammographic breast density estimation using deep learning. Method Our algorithm used a …

Development of a quantitative method for analysis of breast density based on three‐dimensional breast MRI

K Nie, JH Chen, S Chan, MKI Chau, HJ Yu… - Medical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Breast density has been established as an independent risk factor associated with the
development of breast cancer. It is known that an increase of mammographic density is …

Applying artificial intelligence technology to assist with breast cancer diagnosis and prognosis prediction

MA Jones, W Islam, R Faiz, X Chen, B Zheng - Frontiers in oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Breast cancer remains the most diagnosed cancer in women. Advances in medical imaging
modalities and technologies have greatly aided in the early detection of breast cancer and …

Mammographic density and breast cancer risk: evaluation of a novel method of measuring breast tissue volumes

N Boyd, L Martin, A Gunasekara, O Melnichouk… - … Biomarkers & Prevention, 2009 - AACR
Background: Mammographic density has been found to be strongly associated with risk of
breast cancer. We have assessed a novel method of assessing breast tissue that is fully …

Breast imaging with the SoftVue imaging system: First results

N Duric, P Littrup, S Schmidt, C Li… - … of SPIE--the …, 2013 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
For women with dense breast tissue, who are at much higher risk for developing breast
cancer, the performance of mammography is at its worst. Consequently, many early cancers …

Vision 20/20: Mammographic breast density and its clinical applications

KH Ng, S Lau - Medical physics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Breast density is a strong predictor of the failure of mammography screening to detect breast
cancer and is a strong predictor of the risk of developing breast cancer. The many imaging …