Women with increased mammographic density (MD) have an increased risk of developing breast cancer. The purpose of our study is to evaluate an experimental method to quantify MD using a program (compatible with Windows XP, Vista and 7) which measures black areas as 0, white areas as 100 and grey scale areas with intermediate values between 0 and 100, depending on the "density" of the area. Digital screening mammograms were directly estimated with this method. Initial idea and steps of the program were based on a Mac utility used by our research team.

作者：G, Iatrakis；S, Zervoudis；E, Sparaggis；P, Peitsidis；P, Economidis；P, Malakassis；I, Navrozoglou

来源：Journal of medicine and life 2011 年 4卷 3期