The Correlation Analysis between Breast Density and Cancer Risk Factor in Breast MRI Images
Ding-Horng Chen, Yi‐Chen Chang, Pai-Jun Huang, Chia‐Hung Wei · 2013
Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancy in women. Recently, the development in medical imaging technology increases the diagnosis effectiveness in predicting breast tumor in the early stage. The trend in breast cancer diagnose is to predict what kind of breast cancer could be happened instead of detecting the disease. In this paper, a breast magnetic resonance imaging is applied to compute breast density. The breast density value is used to find the correlation with the cancer risk factors such as the age, the cancer type, the tumor location, the tumor size and the cancer tumor grading. The statistics tools one-way single factor ANOVA, F-test and descriptive statistics is used to analyze the correlation. Our study found that breast density with the degree of differentiation of tumor cells in infiltrating ductal carcinoma has a significant relevance (P