Progress Toward a Quantitative Scale for Describing Radiodensity in Mammographic Images
IWDM '08 Proceedings of the 9th international workshop on Digital Mammography
Quantifying effect-specific mammographic density
MICCAI'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention
The standard attenuation rate for quantitative mammography
IWDM'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Digital Mammography
A hypothesis-test framework for quantitative lesion detection and diagnosis
IWDM'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Breast Imaging
Spectral volumetric glandularity assessment
IWDM'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Breast Imaging
Automatic volumetric glandularity assessment from full field digital mammograms
IWDM'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Breast Imaging
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The effect on the measurement of volumetric breast density of variations in physical and chemical properties of adipose and fibroglandular tissue reported in a number of studies is investigated using the authors' model of mammographic image formation. This model is developed specifically for the measurement of breast density. The effect of varying stromal composition, a popular histopathological explanation of mammographic density, is also discussed. Given the uncertainties in tissue attenuation highlighted by this study, as well as noise, and acquisition model error, the validity of this measurement is discussed, together with alternative measurement scales. Several issues are considered, including the effect of beam quality on normalisation accuracy, and the measurement failure which can occur when clinical data falls outside the limited range defined by 100% adipose to 100% fibroglandular tissue.