Software framework for simulating clusters of microcalcifications in digital mammography

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6136 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 689-696

  Zanca, Federica ^a   Zhang, Guozhi ^a   Marshall, Nicholas ^a   Shaheen, Eman ^a   Salvagnini, Elena ^a   Marchal, Guy ^a   Bosmans, Hilde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

digital mammography; microcalcifications; observer performance experiments; simulation

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION METHODS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; EXPOSURE CONDITIONS; EXPOSURE PARAMETERS; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; LESION DETECTION; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; OBSERVER PERFORMANCE; PEAK POSITION; PIXEL SIZE; RADIOLOGICAL IMAGING; RESAMPLING; SIMULATION METHODS; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS; SOFTWARE TOOL;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MICROCOMPUTERS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PIXELS; RADIOLOGY;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77954633235     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13666-5_93     Document Type: Conference Paper

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