Error analysis of calibration materials on dual-energy mammography

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

Volumn 4792 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 596-603

  Mou, Xuanqin ^a   Chen, Xi ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Calibration materials; Dual energy; Error analysis; Mammography

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

CALIBRATION MATERIALS; DUAL-ENERGY MAMMOGRAPHY; MICROCALCIFICATIONS (MCS); THICKNESS ERROR;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CALIBRATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84883836758     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75759-7_72     Document Type: Conference Paper

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