Detecting film-screen artifacts in mammography using a model-based approach

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1016-1024

  Highnam, Ralph ^a   Brady, Mike ^a   English, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artifacts' mammography; Image modeling; Model based analysis; Noise

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

MICROCALCIFICATIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST TUMOR; CALCINOSIS; DUST; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; X RAY FILM;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; DUST; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 0033201374     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.811313     Document Type: Article

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