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Sonographic breast elastography: a primer.
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The basics of this technique are reviewed, how to perform the examination, image interpretation, and artifacts, and a primer will highlight the technique and point out common pitfalls.Abstract:
Breast elastography is a new sonographic technique that provides additional characterization information on breast lesions over conventional sonography and mammography. This technique provides information on the strain or hardness of a lesion, similar to a clinical palpation examination. Two techniques are now available for clinical use: strain (compression-based elastography) and shear wave elastography. Initial evaluation of these techniques in clinical trials suggests that they may substantially improve the characterization of breast lesions as benign or malignant. This improvement may substantially reduce the number of benign biopsies performed. Elastography can be performed by several methods and is now available from several manufactures. This article reviews the basics of this technique, how to perform the examination, image interpretation, and artifacts. Although easy to perform, technique is critical to obtain adequate images for interpretation. This primer will highlight the technique and point out common pitfalls.read more
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WFUMB Guidelines and Recommendations for Clinical Use of Ultrasound Elastography: Part 2: Breast
Richard G. Barr,Kazutaka Nakashima,Dominique Amy,David O. Cosgrove,André Farrokh,F. K. W. Schäfer,Jeffrey C. Bamber,Laurent Castera,Byung Ihn Choi,Yi-Hong Chou,Christoph F. Dietrich,Hong Ding,Giovanna Ferraioli,Carlo Filice,Mireen Friedrich-Rust,Timothy J. Hall,Kathryn R. Nightingale,Mark L. Palmeri,Tsuyoshi Shiina,Shinichi Suzuki,Ioan Sporea,Stephanie R. Wilson,Masatoshi Kudo +22 more
TL;DR: The World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology has produced these guidelines for the use of elastography techniques in liver disease, aimed at assessing the usefulness ofElastography in the management of liver diseases.
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Ultrasound Imaging Technologies for Breast Cancer Detection and Management: A Review
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Comparison of shear-wave and strain ultrasound elastography in the differentiation of benign and malignant breast lesions.
TL;DR: Either elastography technique can improve overall diagnostic performance in the differentiation of benign and malignant lesions when combined with B-mode ultrasound, however, the sensitivity and specificity of shear-wave and strainElastography were different according to lesion histologic profile, tumor grade, and breast thickness.
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Structure-sensitive elastography: on the viscoelastic powerlaw behavior of in vivo human tissue in health and disease
TL;DR: Current applications of in vivo multifrequency magnetic resonance elastography to healthy or diseased tissue are revisited in order to develop a unified framework for the interpretation of disease-related structural changes using viscoelastic powerlaw constants.
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Deep learning-based breast cancer classification through medical imaging modalities: state of the art and research challenges
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TL;DR: This review showed that mammograms and histopathologic images were mostly used to classify breast cancer, and most of the selected studies used accuracy and area-under-the-curve metrics followed by sensitivity, precision, and F-measure metrics to evaluate the performance of the developed breast cancer classification models.
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Elastic Moduli of Breast and Prostate Tissues under Compression
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Quantitative assessment of breast lesion viscoelasticity: initial clinical results using supersonic shear imaging.
Mickael Tanter,Jeremy Bercoff,A. Athanasiou,Thomas Deffieux,Jean-Luc Gennisson,Gabriel Montaldo,Marie Muller,Anne Tardivon,Mathias Fink +8 more
TL;DR: Preliminary clinical results directly demonstrate the clinical feasibility of this new elastography technique in providing quantitative assessment of relative stiffness of breast tissues and give valuable information that is complementary to the B-mode morphologic information.
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Thyroid gland tumor diagnosis at US elastography
Andrej Lyshchik,Tatsuya Higashi,Ryo Asato,Shinzo Tanaka,Juichi Ito,Jerome J. Mai,C. Pellot-Barakat,Michael F. Insana,A. B. Brill,Tsuneo Saga,Masahiro Hiraoka,Kaori Togashi +11 more
TL;DR: Elastography is a promising imaging technique that can assist in the differential diagnosis of thyroid gland cancer, and the usefulness of these criteria was not considered to be high because of their low sensitivity.
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Breast Lesions: Quantitative Elastography with Supersonic Shear Imaging—Preliminary Results
A. Athanasiou,Anne Tardivon,Mickael Tanter,Brigitte Sigal-Zafrani,Jeremy Bercoff,Thomas Deffieux,Jean-Luc Gennisson,Mathias Fink,Sylvia Neuenschwander +8 more
TL;DR: SSI provides quantitative elasticity measurements, thus adding complementary information that potentially could help in breast lesion characterization with B-mode US and to assess the correlation between quantitative values of lesion stiffness and pathologic results.