Evaluation of an improved algorithm for producing realistic 3D breast software phantoms: Application for mammography

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5604-5617

  Bliznakova, K ^a   Suryanarayanan, S ^b,c   Karellas, A ^b,d   Pallikarakis, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

breast modeling; evaluation; mammography simulation

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BLOOD VESSELS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEXTURES; X RAY SCREENS;

BLOOD VESSEL SYSTEMS; BREAST ABNORMALITIES; EVALUATION; KURTOSIS AND SKEWNESS; MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; POWER SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 78149444531     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3491812     Document Type: Article

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