Effect of dose reduction on the detection of mammographic lesions: A mathematical observer model analysis

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3385-3398

  Chawla, Amarpreet S ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^a   Saunders, Robert ^a   Abbey, Craig ^b   Delong, David ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

AUC; Dose reduction; Gabor; Hotelling observer model; Laguerre Gauss; Mammography; ROC; Simulation; SKEV

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LUMINANCE; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; X RAY SCREENS;

DOSE REDUCTION; GABOR; HOTELLING OBSERVERS; LAGUERRE; SIMULATION; SKEV;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BREAST LESION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; IMAGE DISPLAY; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 34547403809     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2756607     Document Type: Article

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