A controlled phantom study of a noise equalization algorithm for detecting microcalcifications in digital mammograms

Medical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 445-454

  Gürün, Özgür Ozan ^a   Fatouros, Panos P ^a   Kuhn, Gary M ^b   De Paredes, Ellen Shaw ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SAIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; Image transforms; Local contrast; Microcalcifications; Noise equalization

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS; X RAY SCREENS;

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; IMAGE TRANSFORMS; LOCAL CONTRAST; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; NOISE EQUALIZATION;

EQUALIZERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CALCIFICATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035049379     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1359245     Document Type: Article

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