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Breast Cancer Screening
Multimodality imaging of breast lesions enhance cancer diagnosis
October 6th, 2005
Multimodality imaging of breast lesions appears to enhance cancer diagnosis. "The use of computer-extracted features of lesions imaged by means of two modalities, mammography and breast ultrasound, in the computerized classification of breast lesions," was the focus of a recent study in the United States. Scientists "performed computerized analysis on a database of 97 patients with a total of 100 lesions (40 malignant, 40 benign solid, and 20 cystic lesions). Mammograms and ultrasound images were available for these breast lesions." "There was an average of three mammographic images and two ultrasound images per lesion," reported K. Drukker and...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-10-06)
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