Dual-energy digital mammography for calcification imaging: Improvement by post-image processing

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue II, 2005, Pages 1342-1350

  Kappadath, S Cheenu ^a   Shaw, Chris C ^a   Lai, Chao Jen ^a   Liu, Xinming ^a   Whitman, Gary J ^a   Yang, Wei T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcifications; Digital imaging; Dual energy; Inverse mapping; Mammography

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE; X RAYS;

DIGITAL IMAGING; DUAL-ENERGY; INVERSE-MAPPING; POST-IMAGE PROCESSING;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844526219     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.596903     Document Type: Conference Paper

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