Cancerous Breast Lesions on Dynamic Contrast-enhanced MR Images: Computerized Characterization for Image-based Prognostic Markers

Cancerous Breast Lesions on Dynamic Contrast-enhanced MR Images: Computerized Characterization for Image-based Prognostic Markers
Neha Bhooshan, Maryellen L. Giger, Sanaz A. Jansen, Hui Li, Li Lan, and Gillian M. Newstead
Radiology 2010;254 680-690

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Study results show that our MR imaging computer-aided diagnosis algorithm, with use of a combination of computer-extracted MR imaging kinetic and morphologic features, has the potential to be extended to two prognostic tasks: (a) classification of noninvasive (ductal carcinoma in situ) versus invasive (invasive ductal carcinoma [IDC]) lesions and (b) further classification of IDC lesions into lesions with positive lymph nodes (LNs) and lesions with negative LNs.