A mathematical model platform for optimizing a multiprojection breast imaging system

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1337-1345

  Chawla, Amarpreet S ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^b   Saunders, Robert S ^a   Lo, Joseph Y ^b   Baker, Jay A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition parameters; AUC; Decision fusion; Digital breast tomosynthesis; Hotelling observer; LG CHO; Multiprojection imaging; Optimization; ROC

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CURVE FITTING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION;

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; DECISION FUSION; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; HOTELLING OBSERVERS; LG CHO;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BREAST DISEASE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DATA SYNTHESIS; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIPROJECTION IMAGING; NOISE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SIMULATION;

EID: 41449091335     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2885367     Document Type: Article

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