Penalized maximum likelihood reconstruction for improved microcalcification detection in breast tomosynthesis

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 904-914

  Das, Mini ^a   Gifford, Howard C ^a   O'Connor, J Michael ^a   Glick, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast tomosynthesis; dose; microcalcifications; penalised maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MODELING; BREAST PHANTOM; BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; CT IMAGE; DETECTABILITY; DETECTION TASKS; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DOSE; DOSE LEVELS; FELDKAMP; HUMAN OBSERVERS; IMAGE SLICES; LOCALIZED RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; LROC CURVES; MICROCALCIFICATION DETECTION; MICROCALCIFICATIONS; OBSERVER PERFORMANCE; PENALISED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PENALIZED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PSYCHOPHYSICAL STUDIES; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TEST IMAGES;

ALGORITHMS; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; MAMMOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST DISEASE; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79953730833     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2089694     Document Type: Article

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