Feasibility and acceptability of stepwedge-based density measurement

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4046 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 355-361

  Berks, Michael ^a   Diffey, Jennifer ^b   Hufton, Alan ^b   Astley, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

BREAST SUPPORT PLATFORM; COMPRESSION PLATES; IMAGING PROCESSES; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES;

DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY);

EID: 33746325845     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11783237_48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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