Challenges in mammography: Part 1, artifacts in digital mammography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Geiser, William R ^a   Haygood, Tamara Miner ^a   Santiago, Lumarie ^a   Stephens, Tanya ^a   Thames, Debra ^a   Whitman, Gary J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Full field digital mammography; Quality assurance; Quality control

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BREAST CANCER; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ERRORS, ARTIFACTS AND QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MACHINE RELATED ARTIFACT; PATIENT RELATED ARTIFACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING ARTIFACT; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STORAGE RELATED ARTIFACT;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 82455194982     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.7246     Document Type: Review

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