Title :
Magnetic resonance in mammography: a quantitative evaluation tool of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance of the breast
Author :
Starita, A. ; La Manna, S. ; Majidi, D. ; Caramella, D. ; Cilotti, A.
Author_Institution :
Pisa Univ., Italy
Abstract :
Our aim had been to develop a tool for the quantitative evaluation of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast, in order to improve the early detection of breast cancer. Our goal was to implement a Web-based tool for the reliable automatic diagnosis of breast MRI, to allow remote diagnosis using a PC workstation. Our tool is able to read MRI DICOM3 files: the images acquired by the MRI console are sent in DICOM format to the PC platform where our computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system is implemented. Because of the promising results we have achieved, we are thinking about an improvement of the automatic tool by using neural architectures. Once the tool has been improved by using neural networks, statistics would be able to be performed on the relations between curve morphologies, image enhancement values and lesions
Keywords :
Internet; biomedical MRI; cancer; mammography; medical image processing; microcomputer applications; DICOM3 files; PC workstation; World Wide Web-based tool; breast cancer; computer-aided diagnosis system; contrast-enhanced MRI; curve morphologies; image enhancement values; lesions; magnetic resonance imaging; mammography; neural architectures; neural networks; quantitative evaluation tool; reliable automatic diagnosis; remote diagnosis; statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in Medical Signal and Information Processing, 2000. First International Conference on (IEE Conf. Publ. No. 476)
Conference_Location :
Bristol
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-728-4
DOI :
10.1049/cp:20000338