Image Based Biomarker of Breast Cancer Risk: Analysis of Risk Disparity among Minority Populations

Abstract

This year we continue our partnership between Delaware State University and University of Pennsylvania. We finalized ACRIN data transfer on MIRC and resolved issues with various batch transfers. We performed a preliminary query of the ACRIN data aimed at identifying the prevalence of women with incomplete visualization of the breast. We developed a code to estimate the breast cancer risks using the demographic metadata information from the ACRIN cases. We estimated breast densities for GE mammograms from the ACRIN database, using the software developed at the University of Pennsylvania. A novel breast image registration method is proposed to obtain a composite mammogram from several images with partial breast coverage, for the purpose of accurate breast density estimation. We designed a method to improve thickness control of the Cooper s ligaments in the simulation algorithm by reducing dents on the ligaments surface.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA612302

Entities

People

  • Andrew Maidment
  • Charlie Wilson
  • Dragoljub Pokrajac
  • Fengshan Liu
  • Predrag Bakic
  • Xiquan Shi

Organizations

  • Delaware State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Anatomy
  • Breast Cancer
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Data Transmission
  • Databases
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Image Registration
  • Information Science
  • Materials
  • Probability Distributions
  • Simulations
  • Visualizations

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  • Medical Imaging.
  • Oncology and Biomarker-Based Cancer Detection.