3-D Ultrasound Vascularity Assessment for Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Abstract

This project is to improve the diagnosis and management of patients with breast cancer through development and evaluation of 3D ultrasound imaging and quantification techniques emphasizing vascularity. Progress this first year included some development of our existing methods for 3D breast ultrasound. These developments included refinements of power mode and frequency shift Doppler acquisition, quantification and display of vascularity. Most effort was directed to three longer-range topics: 1) image registration using the mutual information cost function for evaluation/ demonstration of image compounding and sequential examinations; 2) approaches to real time image-based registration (IBaR) for 3D slice positioning; 3) the effort to image lactic ducts in 3D.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA338765

Entities

People

  • Paul L. Carson

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arteries
  • Breast Cancer
  • Computational Science
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Processing
  • Diagnostic Imaging
  • Doppler Effect
  • Geometry
  • Health Services
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Image Processing
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Medical Personnel
  • Neoplasms
  • Network Science
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Physics

Readers

  • Medical Imaging.
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