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Does Gender Discrimination Impact Regular Mammography Screening? Findings from the Race Differences in Screening Mammography Study

, 2008
Objective: To determine if gender discrimination, conceptualized as a negative life stressor, is a deterrent to adherence to mammography screening guidelines.
Amy B. Dailey, Beth A. Jones, Calvocoressi L, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services, Consedine NS, Stanislav V. Kasl   +5 more
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Evaluation of the SnapChat mobile social networking application for breast cancer awareness among Saudi students in the Dammam Region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Breast Cancer: Targets and Therapy, 2018
Turki M Alanzi, Alanoud Alobrah, Reem Alhumaidi, Shahad Aloraifi Health Information Management and Technology Department, College of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia Purpose: The main aim of this study was to ...
Alanzi TM, Alobrah A, Alhumaidi R, Aloraifi S   +3 more
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Human-machine diversity in the use of computerised advisory systems: a case study [PDF]

, 2003
Computer-based advisory systems form with their users composite, human-machine systems. Redundancy and diversity between the human and the machine are often important for the dependability of such systems.
Alberdi, E., Povyakalo, A. A., Strigini, L.   +2 more
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Development of a Subtraction Processing Technology for Assistance in the Comparative Interpretation of Mammograms

Diagnostics
A comparative interpretation of mammograms has become increasingly important, and it is crucial to develop subtraction processing and registration methods for mammograms.
Chiharu Kai, Satoshi Kondo, Tsunehiro Otsuka, Akifumi Yoshida, Ikumi Sato, Hitoshi Futamura, Naoki Kodama, Satoshi Kasai   +7 more
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Role of dual-energy contrast-enhanced digital mammography as a problem-solving tool in dense breasts: A case report

Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging, 2013
Breast density is strongly and independently related to the risk of breast cancer. Women with very dense breasts may have up to five times higher chances of developing malignancy as compared to those with less breast density.
Teena Sleeba, Anand Subapradha, Madan Ramachandran, Murali Krishnaswami   +3 more
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A giant rapidly progressive breast phyllodes tumour causing a skin rupture. A case report and literature review

Journal of Medical Science, 2017
Large phyllodes tumours may behave in a rare way, in this paper we present a case of large phyllodes tumour with a female lady aged 42. The tumour caused a skin rupture due to rapid growth.
Abdalla Saad Abdalla Al-Zawi, Ali Salih, Wayne Chicken, Kingsley Osayi, Turhan Comez, Marina Barron, Beata Adamczyk   +6 more
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Healthcare technologies and professional vision [PDF]

, 2003
This paper presents some details from an observational evaluation of a computer assisted detection tool in mammography. The use of the tool, its strengths and weaknesses, are documented and its impact on reader's 'professional vision' (Goodwin 1994 ...
Hartswood, Mark, Procter, Rob, Rouncefield, Mark, Slack, Roger, Soutter, J., Voss, Alex   +5 more
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AN ENHANCED MAMMOGRAM DIAGNOSIS USING SHIFT-INVARIANT TRANSFORM [PDF]

ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2014
Breast cancer is a common disease for women and various techniques have been used to detect the breast cancer. The mammogram images are noise, low contrast and blur due to limitations of the X-ray hardware system.
K. Sankar, K. Nirmala
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Association between employer-based health promotion programs and adherence to breast cancer screening in Texas

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2023
Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed among women in Texas. Although adherence to recommended screening mammogram guidelines enables early detection and reduces breast cancer risks, screening mammogram adherence is low in Texas.
Monalisa Chandra, Robert Yu, Sanjay Shete   +2 more
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Breast cancer detection using combined curvelet based enhancement and a novel segmentation methods

Biomedical Papers, 2015
Aim: This paper describes the digital implementation of a mathematical transform namely 2D Fast Discrete Curvelet Transform (FDCT) via UnequiSpaced Fast Fourier Transform (USFFT) in combination with the novel segmentation method for effective detection ...
Balasubramaniam Senthilkumar, Govindaswamy Umamaheswari   +1 more
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