Estimating breast tomosynthesis performance in detection tasks with variable-background phantoms

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7258, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Young, Stefano ^a   Park, Subok ^b   Anderson, S Kyle ^b   Badano, Aldo ^b   Myers, Kyle J ^b   Bakic, Predrag ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c Department of Radiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Background variability; Breast cancer; Breast tomosynthesis; Channelized; DBT; Hotelling observer; Image quality; Laguerre Gauss; Task based assessment

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND VARIABILITY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; CHANNELIZED; DBT; HOTELLING OBSERVER; LAGUERRE-GAUSS; TASK-BASED ASSESSMENT;

IMAGE QUALITY; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; OPTIMIZATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK PERCEPTION; SIGNAL DETECTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 66749162189     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.813900     Document Type: Conference Paper

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