Mammogram registration: A phantom-based evaluation of compressed breast thickness variation effects

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 188-197

  Richard, Frédéric J P ^a,b   Bakić, Predrag R ^a,c   Maidment, Andrew D A ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast compression; Evaluation; Finite elements; Image registration; Mammogram synthesis; Mammography; Multi grid optimization; Partial differential equations; Tissue modeling

Indexed keywords

BREAST COMPRESSION; FINITE ELEMENTS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MAMMOGRAM SYNTHESIS; MULTI-GRID OPTIMIZATION; TISSUE MODELING;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; EVALUATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TISSUE;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 31644431957     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.862204     Document Type: Article

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