A new approach to digital breast tomosynthesis for breast cancer screening

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Nishikawa, Robert M ^a   Reiser, Ingrid ^a   Seifi, Payam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Breast cancer; Computer aided detection; Noise; Screening mammography; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS (DBT); IMAGING MICROCALCIFICATIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TUMORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 35148874776     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.713677     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

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2. R. Nishikawa, Y. Jiang and I. Reiser, "What is the Required Pixel Size for Digital Mammography?" in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Mammography 2004 P. ED, Ed., pp. 81-85, Rayleigh, NC (2004).