An improved method for simulating microcalcifications in digital mammograms

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 4012-4018

  Zanca, Federica ^a   Chakraborty, Dev Prasad ^a   Van Ongeval, Chantal ^a   Jacobs, Jurgen ^a   Claus, Filip ^a   Marchal, Guy ^a   Bosmans, Hilde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Digital mammography; Lesion characterization; Microcalcifications; Morphology; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; X RAY DETECTORS;

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; OBSERVED PROBABILITIES; SHAPE CLASSIFICATION; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; TWO-ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE TASKS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BREAST CALCIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 50449089399     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2968334     Document Type: Article

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