Application of boundary detection information in breast tomosynthesis reconstruction

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3603-3613

  Zhang, Yiheng ^a   Chan, Heang Ping ^a   Sahiner, Berkman ^a   Wu, Yi Ta ^a   Zhou, Chuan ^a   Ge, Jun ^a   Wei, Jun ^a   Hadjiiski, Lubomir M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary artifact reduction; Breast boundary detection; Digital tomosynthesis mammography (DTM); Image reconstruction; Simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (SART)

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BOUNDARY ARTIFACTS; BREAST BOUNDARY; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST CANCER; MEDIO-LATERAL OBLIQUE VIEWS; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SIMULTANEOUS ALGEBRAIC RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS MAMMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34548314257     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2761968     Document Type: Article

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