Improved image quality in digital mammography with image processing

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1503-1508

  Baydush, Alan H ^a   Floyd, Carey E ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bayesian; Digital mammography; Image processing; Scatter; Statistical estimation

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAMMOGRAPHY; X RAY SCREENS;

BAYESIAN; CONTRAST-TO-NOISE RATIO; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ESTIMATION; IMAGES PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; PHANTOMS; SCATTER; SCATTER FRACTIONS; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION;

PHANTOMS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIGITAL COMPUTER; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033866919     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.599016     Document Type: Article

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