Classification of fatty and dense breast parenchyma: comparison of automatic volumetric density measurement and radiologists' classification and their inter-observer variation.

CONCLUSION: The optimal volumetric threshold of 10% using automatic assessment would classify breast parenchyma as fatty or dense with substantial accuracy and consistency compared to radiologists' BI-RADS categorization, which suffers from high inter-observer variation.
PMID: 26792823 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Acta Radiologica - January 20, 2016 Category: Radiology Authors: Østerås BH, Martinsen AC, Brandal SH, Chaudhry KN, Eben E, Haakenaasen U, Falk RS, Skaane P Tags: Acta Radiol Source Type: research