Effect of image quality on calcification detection in digital mammography

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3202-3213

  Warren, Lucy M ^a,b   MacKenzie, Alistair ^a,b   Cooke, Julie ^c   Given Wilson, Rosalind M ^d   Wallis, Matthew G ^e,f   Chakraborty, Dev P ^g   Dance, David R ^a,b   Bosmans, Hilde ^h   Young, Kenneth C ^a,b  

^a ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c Jarvis Breast Screening and Diagnostic Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

calcification; digital mammography; dose; image processing; observer performance

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); GOLD; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHANTOMS;

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; DOSE; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; MICROCALCIFICATION CLUSTER DETECTIONS; MICROCALCIFICATION CLUSTERS; MICROCALCIFICATION DETECTION; OBSERVER PERFORMANCE; OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

AGFA;

EID: 84863506615     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4718571     Document Type: Article

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