Comparison of fully and semi-automated area-based methods for measuring mammographic density and predicting breast cancer risk

摘要

Background: Mammographic density is a strong risk factor for breast cancer but the lack of valid fully automated methods for quantifying it has precluded its use in clinical and screening settings. We compared the performance of a recently developed automated approach, based on the public domain ImageJ programme, to the well-established semi-automated Cumulus method.