Malignant‐lesion segmentation using 4D co‐occurrence texture analysis applied to dynamic contrast‐enhanced magnetic resonance breast image data

To investigate the use of four‐dimensional (4D) co‐occurrence‐based texture analysis to distinguish between nonmalignant and malignant tissues in dynamic contrast‐enhanced (DCE) MR images.

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