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Abstract #1045

VOLUMETRIC BREAST DENSITY QUANTIFICATION FROM 2D MAMOGRAPHIES COMPARED WITH BREAST MRI

Camila Munoz 1 , Dravna Razmilic 2 , Maria E. Navarro 2 , Paula Espinoza 2 , Cristian Tejos 1 , Pablo Irarrazaval 1 , Sergio Uribe 1 , and Marcelo E. Andia 1,2

1 Biomedical Imaging Center, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile, 2 Radiology Department, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile

Breast density is a major risk factor of breast cancer, and is usually assessed visually from mammograms. This has two main disadvantages: there is not a standard measure of breast density, as the breast is classsified in qualitative categories, and this assessment does not consider that mammography is a 2D projection of the breast volume. We developed a method to quantify volumetric breast density from mammograms and a semi-automatic method that quantifies this measure in 3D breast MRI. Thus, it is possible to obtain an equivalent quantitative measure of breast density between both imaging techniques, solving the issues mentioned above.

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