Digital mammography: What do we and what don't we know?

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1931-1942

  Bick, Ulrich ^a   Diekmann, Felix ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer screening; Digital mammography; Image processing; Quality assurance; Work flow

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MASS SCREENING; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 34547120688     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-007-0586-1     Document Type: Article

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