Digital Mammography: Nijmegen, 1998

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Development of Full Field Digital Mammography....Pages 3-10
Initial Operating and Clinical Results of a Full Field Mammography System....Pages 11-18
Design Considerations for a CDZNTE Digital Mammography System....Pages 19-26
High Resolution Mammography Using a Scanned Slit Silicon Strip Detector....Pages 27-30
A CCD Based Digital Detector for Whole-Breast Digital Mammography....Pages 31-34
Evaluation of a Digital Mosaic Mammography Imager....Pages 35-38
Effects of Varying Exit Exposure and Energy Spectrum on the Conspicuity of Calcifications and Masses in Digitally Acquired Mammograms of Cadaveric Breasts....Pages 39-42
Ultra-Small Focal Spot X-Ray Sources for High Resolution Digital Mammography....Pages 43-46
Evaluation of a Digital Spot Mammographic Unit Using a Contrast Detail Phantom....Pages 47-50
Digital Breast Tomosynthesis: Potentially a New Method for Breast Cancer Screening....Pages 51-56
Three-Dimensional Visualization of Breast Cancer....Pages 57-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Detecting the Central Mass of a Spiculated Lesion Using Scale-Orientation Signatures....Pages 63-70
Comparison of Methods for Combining Evidence for Spiculated Lesions....Pages 71-78
A Computer Assisted Diagnostic System for Mass Detection....Pages 79-86
Tumor Detection System for Full-Digital Mammography....Pages 87-94
Combining Single View Features and Asymmetry for Detection of Mass Lesions....Pages 95-102
Comparing Mammogram Pairs for the Detection of Lesions....Pages 103-110
Determining Correspondence Between Views....Pages 111-118
Comparison of Three Mass Detection Methods....Pages 119-126
Classifying Image Features in the Last Screening Mammograms Prior to Detection of a Malignant Mass....Pages 127-134
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Detection of Spicules on Mammograms Based on a Multistage Pendulum Filter....Pages 135-138
Development of a New Algorithm for Detection of Mammographic Masses....Pages 139-142
Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Digital Mammography and Ultrasound Images of Breast Mass Lesions....Pages 143-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Evaluation of a Neural Network Classifier for Detection of Microcalcifications and Opacities in Digital Mammograms....Pages 151-156
Microcalcifications Detection Using Adaptive Filtering and Gaussianity Tests....Pages 157-164
Detection of Microcalcification Clusters in Digital Mammography Via the Spatial Scan Statistic with Stochastic Scan Partitions....Pages 165-168
Improved Correction for Signal Dependent Noise Applied to Automatic Detection of Microcalcifications....Pages 169-176
Modeling of Digital Mammograms Using Bicubic Spline Functions and Additive Noise....Pages 177-184
Integration of Low-Level Processing to Facilitate Microcalcification Detection....Pages 185-188
Development of a Multi-Feature Cad System for Mammography....Pages 189-196
Automated Detection of Clustered Microcalcifications on Digitized Mammograms....Pages 197-200
Microcalcification Detection System for Full-Digital Mammography....Pages 201-204
Detection of Mammographic Microcalcifications Using a Statistical Model....Pages 205-208
Detection of Subtle Microcalcifications in Digital Mammograms....Pages 209-212
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Benefits of Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) in Mammographic Diagnosis of Malignant and Benign Clustered Microcalcifications....Pages 215-220
Interactive Quantitative Characterization of Micro-Calcifications on Digitized Film-Screen Mammograms....Pages 221-224
Automated Detection and Classification of Micro-Calcifications in Mammograms Using Artifical Neural Nets....Pages 225-232
Classification of Microcalcifications Using Texture-Based Features....Pages 233-236
Evaluation of a Decision Aid for the Classification of Microcalcifictions....Pages 237-244
Evidential Approach to Improved Microcalcification Characterization....Pages 245-248
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Comparative Evaluation of Statistical Pattern Recognition Techniques for the Classification of Breast Lesions....Pages 249-252
Detection of Breast Tumor Boundaries Using ISO-Intensity Contours and Dynamic Thresholding....Pages 253-260
Mammographic Region of Interest Database Retrieval and Indexing Engine....Pages 261-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Quantitative Interpretation of Mammograms Based on a Physical Model of the Image Formation Process....Pages 267-274
Estimating Compressed Breast Thickness....Pages 275-278
Sites of Occurrence of Malignancies in Mammograms....Pages 279-282
Simulated Mammography Using Synthetic 3D Breasts....Pages 283-290
Anatomic Segmentation of Mammograms Via Breast Model....Pages 291-294
Multiresolution Wavelet Approach for Separating the Breast Region from the Background in High Resolution Digital Mammography....Pages 295-298
The Fusion of Supervised and Unsupervised Techniques for Segmentation of Abnormal Regions....Pages 299-302
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
Mixture Modeling for Digital Mammogram Display and Analysis....Pages 305-312
Display of High-Resolution Digital Mammograms on CRT Monitors....Pages 313-320
Volume Reconstruction of Clustered Micro-Calcifications in Mammograms....Pages 321-328
Maximum Entropy Improvement of X-Ray Digital Mammograms....Pages 329-336
Differences in Viewing Time for Mammograms Displayed on Film Versus a CRT Monitor....Pages 337-343
Front Matter....Pages 345-345
Prompting in Mammography: How Good Must Prompt Generators Be?....Pages 347-354
Evaluation of a Prompting System Using Interval Cancers....Pages 355-358
Computer-Aided Cancer Detection in the UK Breast Screening Programme....Pages 359-362
Prompting in Practice: How Can We Ensure Radiologists Make Best Use of Computer-Aided Detection Systems in Screening Mammography?....Pages 363-370
Non-Radiologists and CAD Systems in Breast Cancer Screening....Pages 371-374
Front Matter....Pages 345-345
CAD Implementation: Implications from Real Life Visual Search of Screening Cases....Pages 375-382
Mammographic Screening: Sensitivity of General Radiologists....Pages 383-388
Front Matter....Pages 389-389
Initial Clinical Experience with Full Field Digital Mammography....Pages 391-394
Clinical Results with R2 Imagechecker System....Pages 395-400
Prospective Testing of a Clinical Mammography Workstation for CAD: Analysis of the First 10,000 Cases....Pages 401-406
Performance Studies of a Computer-Aided Diagnostic System on Mammograms....Pages 407-410
Direct Magnification Radiography of the Breast in Combination with Computed Radiography: First Clinical Results....Pages 411-414
A Framework for Computer Aided Mammographic Screening for Breast Cancer....Pages 415-418
Computerized Analysis of Digitized Mammograms of Women with Low Breast Cancer Risk and of BRCA1/BRCA2 Gene-Mutation Carriers....Pages 419-422
Comparison of Analog and Digital Spot Magnified Mammography....Pages 423-426
Breast Cancer Screening Results....Pages 427-433
Front Matter....Pages 435-435
Acceptance Testing and Quality Control of Digital Mammography Equipment....Pages 437-444
An Automated Quality Control Program for Whole Breast Digital Image Receptors....Pages 445-448
Management and Lesion Detection Effects of Lossy Image Compression on Digitized Mammograms....Pages 449-456
Current Status of the Digital Database for Screening Mammography....Pages 457-460
Image Standardization for Digital Mammography....Pages 461-464
Automated Detection of Microcalcifications after Lossy Compression of Digital Mammograms....Pages 465-472
Front Matter....Pages 473-473
Automatic Detection of Clustered Microcalcifications Using Morphological Reconstruction....Pages 475-476
Microcalcification Evaluation Based on Shape Parameters....Pages 477-478
An Automatic Non-Deforming Technique for Selective Microcalcifications Enhancement....Pages 479-480
Front Matter....Pages 473-473
The Auto Detection of Cluster Micro-Calcifications in Digital Mammograms Using Texture Energy....Pages 481-482
Precise Segmentation of Calcifications for Reliable Computerized Diagnosis....Pages 483-484
Performance-Evaluation for Automated Detection of Microcalcifications in Mammograms Using Three Different Film-Digitizers....Pages 485-486
A Neural Network Based Method Selecting Gabor Wavelet Filters for the Detection of Microcalcifications....Pages 487-488
Detection and Characterization of Mammographic Masses by Artificial Neural Network....Pages 489-490
Clinical Comparison of Full Breast Storage Phosphor Digital Mammography and Film-Screen Mammography — A Receiver Operating Characteristic Study....Pages 491-492
Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) of Breast-Cancer — Diagnostic Performance of a Further Improved System....Pages 493-494
Comparison of Conventional and Secondarily Digitized Mammograms by ROC — Analysis to Evaluate a Computer System for Digital Routine Mammography....Pages 495-496
3D Reconstruction of Clusters of Mammary Microcalcifications....Pages 497-498
The Calma Project....Pages 499-500
Are There Quantifiable Reasons for a Radiologist’s Preference for an Intensity Inverted Mammogram?....Pages 501-502
The Need to Standardize and Calibrate Databases of Digitized Mammograms....Pages 503-504
Diagnostic Accuracy of Digitized Mammograms Versus Film-Screen Mammograms....Pages 505-506
A Low Cost Computer Assisted Mammography Workstation....Pages 507-508
X-Ray Imaging with a Silicon Microstrip Detector....Pages 509-510
System Considerations for Satellite Transmission of Digitized Mammograms....Pages 511-512
Mobile Breast Care Using DICOM Satellite Telemammography Prompt-Interpretation System....Pages 513-514
Back Matter....Pages 515-519