Quantitative analysis of vascular properties derived from ultrafast DCE‐MRI to discriminate malignant and benign breast tumors

We propose a novel methodology to integrate morphological and functional information of tumor‐associated vessels to assist in the diagnosis of suspicious breast lesions.

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