Mammographie risk assessment is concerned with the probability of a woman developing breast cancer. Recently, it has been suggested that the density of linear structures is related to risk. For 321 images from the MIAS database, a measure of line strength was obtained for each pixel using the Line Operator method. The proportion of pixels with line strength above a threshold level was calculated for each image and the results categorised by Tabar pattern, Boyd SCC class and BIRADS class. The results indicated a significant difference between Boyd classes 1-3 (low risk) and classes 4-6 (high risk), and between most Tabar patterns and BIRADS classes. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.
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Hadley, E. M., Denton, E. R. E., & Zwiggelaar, R. (2006). Mammographic risk assessment based on anatomical linear structures. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4046 LNCS, pp. 626–633). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11783237_84
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