background: the role of the breast clinics is to diagnose breast cancer and reassure patients with benign disorders. one stop clinics - same day reporting - further reduce anxiety caused by the delay in the results. the first one stop clinic was introduced in squh–oman in september 2011. methods: this retrospective analysis of 395 consecutive cases presented to breast one stop clinic at squh wa...

Breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation is challenging and critical for BUS Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems. Many BUS segmentation approaches have been proposed in the last two decades, but the performances of most approaches have been assessed using relatively small private datasets with differ-ent quantitative metrics, which result in discrepancy in performance comparison. Therefore...

PURPOSE This study evaluated the importance of routine pathological examination of contralateral breast specimens in breast cancer patients using reduction mammoplasty. METHODS The weight of breast tissue resected from the contralateral breast in 71 patients and the number of slices used for pathological evaluation were recorded. Breast lesions found in the contralateral breast and accompanyi...

results the frequency of bi-rads category 3 lesions detected on screening ultrasound was 18% (90/500). of these patients, one was eventually proven to have malignancy with malignancy rate of 1.1%. this detected malignancy was early breast cancer with no lymph node metastasis. conclusions although the frequency of ultrasound bi-rads category 3 lesions is considerably high (18 %), the malignancy ...

INTRODUCTION There has been no previous study to classify benign breast lesions in details based on histopathologically confirmed diagnosis in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. This study therefore aims to review all cases of benign breast lesions seen in all the three centres in Bayelsa State with histopathology services over a five year period for a comprehensive baseline data in our community for mana...

PURPOSE To automatically segment multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions into three subtypes (i.e., enhancing lesions, T1 "black holes", T2 hyperintense lesions). MATERIALS AND METHODS Proton density-, T2- and contrast-enhanced T1-weighted brain images of 12 MR scans were pre-processed through intracranial cavity (IC) extraction, inhomogeneity correction and intensity normalization. Intensity-based s...

Due to the widespread implementation of breast screening programs and improvements in diagnostic imaging, approximately 25-35% of breast cancers are non-palpable at diagnosis (Skinner et al., 2001). However, because of these breast screening programs and improvements there is an increase in the incidence of breast lesions which have to be clarified histopathologically. As well as nonpalpable br...