Automatic slice selection and diagnosis of breast strain elastography

摘要

Purpose: Generally speaking, breast imaging experts and physicians select a representative slice from the strain elastographic image sequences to diagnose the tumor. Given the strain image qualities, it is difficult to make a successful diagnosis using human eyes only. The main purpose of this study is to develop an automatic and reliable method to select the representative slice from the elastography cine loops and/or video and then diagnose the tumor by means of the elastographic features generated from the selected slice.