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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 10.
Published in final edited form as: Ultrasound Med Biol. 2016 Sep 29;43(1):91–103. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2016.08.021

Table 4.

Correlations of Mammographic Subregion Density Measures with UST Density Measures

Mammographic
Dense Area (cm2)
Mammographic Non-
Dense Area (cm2)
Total Mammographic
Breast Area (cm2)

K-Means Mean Dense Sound Speed (m/s) 0.367 −0.323 −0.194 (0.012)
K-Means Mean Non-Dense Sound Speed (m/s) 0.584 −0.381 −0.212 (0.006)
K-Means Dense Volume (cm3) 0.198 (0.011) 0.408 0.501
K-Means Non-Dense Volume (cm3) −0.168 (0.031) 0.764 0.764
K-Means Percent Density (%) 0.412 −0.542 −0.451

Threshold Mean Dense Sound Speed (m/s) 0.178 (0.022) −0.277 −0.196 (0.012)
Threshold Mean Non-Dense Sound Speed (m/s) 0.579 −0.292 −0.135 (0.084)
Threshold Dense Volume (cm3) 0.466 0.153 (0.050) 0.326
Threshold Non-Dense Volume (cm3) −0.233 0.780 0.748
Threshold Percent Density (%) 0.569 −0.577 −0.428

Total Breast Volume (cm3) −0.082 (0.296) 0.720 0.745

Each cell contains Spearman correlation coefficient with p-value shown in brackets. For entries without bracket, p-value was p < 0.001.