Development and implementation of a user friendly and automated environment for the creation of databases of digital mammograms with simulated microcalcifications

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6146, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Zanca, Federica ^a   Jacobs, Jurgen ^a   Pöyry, Paula ^b   Van Ongeval, Chantai ^a   Carton, Ann Catherine ^c   Deprez, Tom ^a   Marchal, Guy ^a   Bosnians, Hilde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic analysis of microcalcifications detectability; Automatic microcalcification inclusion; Digital mammography; Mammograms database; Simulated microcalcifications

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF MICROCALCIFICATIONS DETECTABILITY; AUTOMATIC MICROCALCIFICATION INCLUSION; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; MAMMOGRAMS DATABASE; SIMULATED MICROCALCIFICATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MORPHOLOGY;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745155061     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.653135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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