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Improvement in diagnosis of breast tumour using ultrasound elastography and echography: A phantom based analysis
Kishore Sathish Kumar, Maneesha Esther Andrews, V. Jayashankar,
Published in
2009
Volume: 5
   
Issue: 4
Abstract
Due to the isoechoic nature of lesions and their poor contrast with neighbouring tissue, a lesion may remain undetected in ultrasound B mode imaging for cancerous tissue. Imaging of the elastic properties of tissue provides new information which is collateral to tissue pathology. This study provides quantitative analysis of improvements in tumour diagnosis when the ultrasound B mode imaging is combined with elastography. Quantification was based on the textural parameters measured from the ultrasound B mode image and strain measured from the elastogram. The ability of a parameter to discriminate between diseased cases and normal cases was evaluated using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. Polyacrylamide gel based tissue mimicking phantoms with embedded inclusions of varying stiffness were used for the analysis. © 2009 Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal. All rights reserved.
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JournalBiomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal
ISSN18235530
Open AccessYes
Concepts (11)
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    Breast tumor
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    Echography
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    ELASTOGRAPHY
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    Image analysis
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    Image processing
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    PHANTOM
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    Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
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    Quantitative analysis
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    Receiver operating characteristic
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    Tumor diagnosis