"Breast Density" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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Measurement of relative composition of different BREAST tissue types often determined from MAMMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; or MRI.
| Descriptor ID |
D000071060
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.600.115.275 G07.100.138
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| Concept/Terms |
Mammographic Breast Density- Mammographic Breast Density
- Breast Densities, Mammographic
- Breast Density, Mammographic
- Mammographic Breast Densities
- Mammographic Density
- Density, Mammographic
- Mammographic Densities
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Breast Density" by people in Profiles.
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Applying a new quantitative image analysis scheme based on global mammographic features to assist diagnosis of breast cancer. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2019 Oct; 179:104995.
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Prediction of breast cancer risk using a machine learning approach embedded with a locality preserving projection algorithm. Phys Med Biol. 2018 01 30; 63(3):035020.
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Mammographic Density Change With Estrogen and Progestin Therapy and Breast Cancer Risk. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2017 09 01; 109(9).
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Developing a new case based computer-aided detection scheme and an adaptive cueing method to improve performance in detecting mammographic lesions. Phys Med Biol. 2017 01 21; 62(2):358-376.
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Association between computed tissue density asymmetry in bilateral mammograms and near-term breast cancer risk. Breast J. 2014 May-Jun; 20(3):249-57.