A task-specific argument for variable-exposure breast tomosynthesis

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7361 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 72-79

  Young, Stefano ^a   Badal, Andreu ^b   Myers, Kyle J ^b   Park, Subok ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

breast; image quality; task specific; tomosynthesis; variable exposure

Indexed keywords

BREAST; BREAST PHANTOM; BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; CURRENT IMAGING; DETECTABILITY; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; LINEAR OBSERVER; LOW DENSITY; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK; SPECIFIC TASKS; TASK-SPECIFIC; TOMOSYNTHESIS; VARIABLE-EXPOSURE;

IMAGE QUALITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84864851002     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31271-7_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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