Digital Mammography

Imaging Systems and Detectors.- Digital Mammographic Application of a Single Photon Counting Pixel Detector.- Breast Cancer Screening Using a Dedicated Breast CT Scanner: A Feasibility Study.- Physical Evaluation of a Prototype for the Sectra Microdose Mammography System.- Dose Measurements on a Scanning Multi-slit Digital Mammography System.- Digital Mammography vs. to Screen-Film Mammography: a Phantom Study.- Mammography Taxonomy for Improvement of Lesion Detection Rates.- A High Resolution (25 /im) Hybrid Selenium/CCD Slot Scan Detector for Digital Mammography.- Co-registered Breast Imaging with 3D X-Rays and 3D Ultrasound.- Imaging Characteristics of a Direct Conversion Full-Field Digital Mammography Detector using Selenium.- Simultaneous Acquisition of Diffraction, Scattering and Phase-ContrastImages by Means of a Multi-Layer Edge-On Microstrip Detector.- Full Field Digital Mammography with a CCD Based Slot-Scanned Detector. Physical Characteristics Measurements.- Evaluation of Light Collection in Digital Indirect Detection X-Ray Imagers: Monte Carlo Simulations with a More Realistic Phosphor Screen Model.- The Effect of Scatter Radiation and its Removal on the DQE of Digital Mammography Systems.- Finding CLS Using a Multiresolution Oriented Local Energy Feature Detection.- Characterization of an FFDM Unit Based on a-Se Direct Conversion Detector.- Comparison of Noise Characteristics Between CR System and Full Field Digital Mammography System.- Physical Factors Affecting the Detection of Calcifications in Digital Mammography.- Image Quality.- A First Experience of Quality Control in Full Field Digital Mammography.- Acceptance Testing of Digital Mammography Units for the ACRIN/DMIST Study.- Evaluation and Modelling of Detection, Location and Discrimination of Lesions in Mammograms.- Effect of Detector Noise on Phantom Image Quality in a Number of FFDM Systems.- Features Analysis Comparison of Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) and Amorphous Selenium* (aSe) Full-Field Digital Mammography (FFDM) Systems.- Comparison of Screen-Film, Imaging Plate and Direct Digital Mammography With CD Phantoms.- Optimizing Full-Field Digital Mammography Techniques: The Influence of Target-Filter and Peak Voltage Settings on Lesion Detection and Average Glandular Dose.- A New CR Based System for High Resolution Mammography: Experimental Analysis of Low Contrast Detectability lll.- Digital Luminescence Mammography (CR) Without Magnification In Clinical Routine (n=1.363).- Digital Luminescence Mammography: A Phantom Study Before Clinical Use.- Interpreting System MTF and NPS Measured on Clinical Digital Mammography Systems.- Automated Method for Measuring Contrast-to-Noise-Ratio (CNR) and Signal-to-Noise-Ratio (SNR) on a Full Field Digital Mammography System (FFDMS).- Interpretation of Contrast Detail Images in Digital Mammography: Human Observer versus Computer Detection.- Automated scoring for CD-MAM phantom on digital mammography.- Comparison of Experimental and Theoretical Assessments of Detail Visibility in Digital Mammography.- Comparison of Objective and Subjective Methods to Assess Imaging Performance in Digital Mammography.- Dose Reduction in Full-Field Digital Mammography - AnAnthropomorphic Breast Phantom Study.- Evaluation of the Exposure Dose Reduction in Full-Field Digital Mammography System.- Optimization of Digital Subtraction Mammography using Monte Carlo Simulation of the Imaging Chain.- Image Quality of a Dual Side Reading Fuji Computed Mammography System Compared to the GE FFDM System and a Film/Screen Mammography System.- Image Processing and Display.- An Automatic Scheme to Breast Region Segmentation.- A Universal Segmentation Platform for Computer-Aided Detection.- Improved Aids For Image Comparison.- Film-Screen Artefact Detection in Mammograms.- Learning the Optimal Contrast Enhancement of Mammographic Breast Masses.- Automatic Evaluation of Mammographic Adequacy and Quality on the Mediolateral Oblique View.- Peripheral Thickness Correction for Volumetric Breast Density Estimation.- An Adaptive Enhancement Filter For Mammographic Phantom Image.- Analysis and Classification of Breast Masses by Fuzzy-Set-Based Image Processing.- Three Comparative Methods For Mammograms Segmentation: By Master-Slave Algorithm and by Two Parallel Fusion Algorithms.- 3D Object Localization and Visualization in Breast Tomosynthesis.- Automatic Breast Orientation in Mediolateral Oblique View Mammograms 207.- Enhanced Identification of Different Types of Microcalcifcations Usingthe Wavelet Transform Method.- Non-Rigid Mammogram Registration With Free Boundary Constraints.- Comparison of Three Different Mass Segmentation Methods.- EM Texture Segmentation of Mammographic Images.- Comparison Between JPEG and a New Neural Compression Method for Digitized Mammograms.- Content-based Image Retrieval in Mammography: Using TextureFeatures for Correlation with BI-RADS Categories.- Contrast Enhancement by Digital Equalization in Digital Mammography.- Representing Clustered Microcalcifications by their Cluster Shape.- Analysis of Changes in Masses Using Contrast and Size Measures.- A model for nonrigid mammogram registration using mutual information.- Computer Aided Diagnosis.- Evaluation of Breast Ductal Networks Using Ramification Matrices.- Computer Aided Detection (CAD) in Direct Full Field Digital Mammography (FFDM).- A New Method for Optimising and Evaluating Mammographic Detection Algorithms.- Invasive Lobular Carcinoma: Detection of Cases Occult at Screening.- A Test to Evaluate the Impact of the CAD Tools in Mammographic Diagnosis.- Detection of Very Subtle Microcalcification Clusters in High Resolution Full Field X-Ray Mammograms.- Impact of computer-placed prompts on sensitivity and specificity with different groups of mammographic film readers.- Breast Density Estimation: Correlation of Mammographic Density and MR Volumetric Density.- Statistical Characterization of Normal Curvilinear Structures in Mammograms.- Improved Mammographic Accuracy with CAD Assisted Classification of Lesions.- Results of an Observer Study with an Intelligent Mammographic Workstation for CAD.- An Adaptive Similarity Measure for Automated Identification of Breast Lesions in Temporal Pairs of Mammograms for Interval Change Analysis..- An Index Atlas of Digital Mammograms.- Segmentation of Suspicious Clustered Microcalcifications in Digital Mammography: Using Fuzzy Logic on Wavelet Coefficients.- Comparison of BI-RADS Lesion Descriptors and Computer-Extracted Image Features for Automated Classification of Malignant and Benign Breast Lesions.- CAD of Breast Cancer on Current and Prior Mammograms.- Optimal Feature Set for the Detection of Breast Tumors on Mammograms - Preliminary Study.- CAD Methodology Transfer from 2D to 3D Digital Mammography for Calcification Enhancement And Segmentation: A Feasibility Study.- Mass Detection Algorithm for Digital Mammograms Based on an Adaptive Thresholding Technique Utilizing Multi-Resolution Processing.- A Non-Parametric Approach to Detecting Microcalcifications.- Detection of Microcalcifications Using SMF.- Temporal Mass Detection.- Automated Detection of Architectural Distortions on Mammograms.- Detection of Microcalcification Clusters in Digital Mammogram Images.- The use of Joint Two-View Information for Improving Computerized Microcalcification Detection Accuracy.- A Normal Mammogram Classifier Using Binary Decision Trees with Multiresolution Features.- Development of CAD System for 3D Breast Ultrasound Images.- Incorporating Explanations into a CAD Tool for the Classification of Calcifications.- Using Information from Two Mammographie Views to Improve Computer-Aided Detection of Mass Lesions.- Classification of Breast Tumors in Digitized Mammograms.- Experience with Computer-Aided Detection in a Low-Volume Mammography Clinic.- Artificial Neural Network Method for Detecting Clustered Microcalcifications in Masses on Mammograms.- Removal of Curvilinear Structure from Mammograms to Improve Mass Detection.- A Novel Approach to Mass Detection in Digital Mammography Based on Support Vector Machines (SVM).- Optimal Texture Feature Extraction in Digital Mammograms.- Classifying Masses: Significance of Az Scores After Feature Space Selection.- Classifying DCIS and Lobular Clustered Microcalcification Using Different Schemes.- Improved Computerized Detection of Individual Microcalcifications to Integrate Cluster Detection and a Classification Schemes.- Rapid Segmentation of Calcification Clusters Using Multi-Resolution Guided Fuzzy C-Means and Wavelet Processing.- Soft Copy Reading.- Soft Copy Mammography Rading: Influence of Monitor Luminance & Tone Scale.- SCREEN-TRIAL: Soft Copy Reading in European Screening Mammography.- On The Problem of Bilateral Comparison of Mammograms.- Stereoscopic Digital Mammography: Perceptual and Display Factors Leading to Improved Early Detection of Breast Cancer.- Modeling the Time Course of the Detection of Lesions on Digitized Mammograms.- MammoTrainer - Computer-based Training for Soft-Copy Reading of Mammograms on PC.- Effect of Default Display and Presentation Protocol on Softcopy Mammography.- Computer-Based Reading of Full-Field Digital Mammograms.- Display of Mammograms on a CRT.- Performance Evaluation of a Digital Reading Station for Screening Mammography.- Clinical presentation of breast tissue composition metrics.- Using Observer Models to Predict Softcopy Performance with Digital Mammography.- Clinical Studies of Digital Mammography or Related Modalities.- An Evaluation of a Commercial Prompting System in a Busy Screening Centre.- Should We Use Humans or a Machine to Pre-Screen Mammograms?.- Intraindividual Comparison of Full-Field-Digital-Mammography and Conventional Film-Screen Mammography for Early Detection of Breast Cancer.- Longitudinal Retrospective Study of Breast Tissue Composition.- Microcalcifications and Masses: Is High Resolution Digital Luminescence Mammography (without Magnification) (CR) Equal to Conventional Screen Film Mammography (SFM)? A Clinical, Histologically Proven Study.- Clinical Evaluation of CR Mammography in Comparison with Full-Field Digital Mammography.- Comparison of Full Field Digital and Analog Mammograms.- Average Glandular Dose with Full-Field Digital Mammography - Clinical Results.- 3D Techniques.- 3D Visualization of X-ray Tomosynthesis Digital Mammography Data: Preference Study.- Is Stereomammography Possible Without Increasing Dose?.- Preference Study of Reconstructed Image Quality in Mammographic Tomosynthesis.- Scatter Correction in Tomosynthesis Imaging for Mammography.- Mammographic X-Ray and MR Correspondence.- Assessment Tools for Breast Surgery Based on 3D Surface Anatomy Imaging.- Volumetric Texture Analysis: Towards the Third Dimension.- Tracking of 3D Structures in MR Mammography.- Other Application of Digital Mammography.- Risk Assessment: The Use of Background Texture in Mammographic Imaging.- Comparing two Breast Density Metrics for Risk Assessment.- Assessing the Role of Quantitative Analysis of Mammograms in Describing Breast Density Changes in Women Using HRT.- Subjective and Computer-Based Characterisation of Mammographic Patterns.- The Problem of Image Interpretation in Mammography: How Do Radiologists See What They Think They See?.- Image Retrieval System of Mammographic Masses by Using Local Pattern Matching Technique.- Application of Dual-Energy Techniques to Digital Mammography.- An Optical Method For Measuring Compressed Breast Thickness.- Volumetric Breast Density Estimation on Digitized Mammograms - A Preliminary Clinical Study.- Enhancement of Microcalcifications in Full-Field Digital Mammography by Energy Subtraction.- Development of a Computer-Aided Sketch System for Mammograms.- Breast Tissue-Equivalent Contrast Detail, Resolution and Dosimetry Phantom for 3D Imaging.- Author Index.