Analysis of parenchymal texture with digital breast tomosynthesis: comparison with digital mammography and implications for cancer risk assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To correlate the parenchymal texture features at digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and digital mammography with breast percent density (PD), an established breast cancer risk factor, in a screening population of women.

Materials and methods

This HIPAA-compliant study was approved by the institutional review board. Bilateral DBT images and digital mammograms from 71 women (mean age, 54 years; age range, 34-75 years) with negative or benign findings at screening mammography were retrospectively collected from a separate institutional review board-approved DBT screening trial (performed from July 2007 to March 2008) in which all women had given written informed consent. Parenchymal texture features of skewness, coarseness, contrast, energy, homogeneity, and fractal dim

SUBMITTER: Kontos D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3176420 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature