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What breast density status can tell us about cardiovascular risk

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By: Hannah Murphy From: healthimaging.com Example of the four types of breast tissue density. The density of fibroglandular tissue inside the breast impacts the ability to easily see cancers. On X-ray mammography, cancer and dense breast tissue both appear as white and can hide smaller cancers on 2D mammography. Dense breasts are also a risk factor for cancer. Cancers are …

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Prediction of Lymphovascular invasion status in breast cancer based on magnetic resonance imaging radiomics features

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From: sciencedirect.com Abstract Objective This study intended to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of using clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radiomics features to predict lymphovascular invasion (LVI) status in breast cancer (BC) patients. Methods A total of 182 BCE patients were retrospectively collected and randomly divided into a training set (n = 127) and a validation set (n = 55) in a 7:3 ratio. Based …