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This book contains the proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Digital Mammography held in Bremen, Germany, June 22-25, 2002. The Workshop was a forum for discussing new developments in digital mammography and its applications and included presentations by 135 experts from all over the world. It covers the latest developments in: Imaging Systems and Detectors, Image Quality, Image Processing and Display, Computer Aided Diagnosis, Soft Copy Reading, Clinical Studies of Digital Mammography or Related Modalities, 3D Techniques, Other Applications of Digital Mammography.

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Author:   Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   6th ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   1.400kg
ISBN:  

9783540005230

ISBN 10:   3540005234
Pages:   614
Publication Date:   07 March 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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.

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