A new validation method for X-ray mammogram registration algorithms using a projection model of breast X-ray compression

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1190-1200

  Hipwell, John H ^b   Tanner, Christine ^b   Crum, William R ^b   Schnabel, Julia A ^a,b   Hawkes, David J ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedical X ray imaging; Image registration; Mammography; Modeling; Validation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DATA ACQUISITION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MAMMOGRAPHIC TEST IMAGES; REGISTRATION ACCURACY; X RAY COMPRESSION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 34548542703     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.903569     Document Type: Article

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