[Fractal analysis of a breast carcinoma--presentation of a modern morphometric method]. / Fraktale Analyse eines Mammakarzinoms--Vorstellung einer modernen morphometrischen Methode.
Wien Med Wochenschr
; 148(14): 335-7, 1998.
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| ID: mdl-9816645
ABSTRACT
Fractal analysis techniques are common tools in physics and image processing. In the past few years they have gained increasing attention in medical sciences, e.g., cardiology, pathology and radiology, respectively. This article intends to describe this new technique by applying fractal analysis to the instant of a breast carcinoma. One of the advantages of fractal analysis is the ability to describe an irregular and complex object by a measureable value, called the fractal dimension. The fractal dimension can be determined by using the box-counting method. We applied this technique to the mammography as well as to the histologic section of a breast carcinoma. The application of fractal analysis provides a specific measureable value of the growth pattern of a tumor. Thus, the fractal dimension serves in addition to the common used metric diameter.
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Assunto principal:
Neoplasias da Mama
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Mamografia
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Interpretação de Imagem Radiográfica Assistida por Computador
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Fractais
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Ano de publicação:
1998
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Article