Identification of simulated microcalcifications in white noise and mammographic backgrounds

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2905-2911

  Reiser, Ingrid ^a   Nishikawa, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

2 AFC; Anatomical backgrounds; Detection experiment; Discrimination experiment; Mammography; Microcalcifications

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

2-AFC; ANATOMICAL BACKGROUNDS; DETECTION EXPERIMENTS; DISCRIMINATION EXPERIMENTS; MICROCALCIFICATIONS;

WHITE NOISE;

ARTICLE; BREAST CALCIFICATION; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SIMULATION; ENERGY; FILTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NON PREWHITENING WITH EYE FILTER; OBSERVER BIAS; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 33746589033     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2210566     Document Type: Article

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