Development and characterization of an anthropomorphic breast software phantom based upon region-growing algorithm

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3165-3176

  Bakic, Predrag R ^a   Zhang, Cuiping ^a,b   Maidment, Andrew D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CMART Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

modeling; simulation of breast image acquisition; validation; visualization

Indexed keywords

FLOW VISUALIZATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MODELS; PHANTOMS; TOMOGRAPHY;

DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; FIBROGLANDULAR TISSUE; REGION GROWING ALGORITHM; SEEDED REGION GROWING ALGORITHMS; SIMULATION PARAMETERS; SOFTWARE BREAST PHANTOMS; SPECIFIC ORIENTATION; VALIDATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 79958857354     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3590357     Document Type: Article

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