Digital Mammography: IWDM 2000, 5th International Workshop

Digital Mammography: IWDM 2000, 5th International Workshop

Author:  Martin Yaffe
ISBN:  9781930524002
Published:  2001 | 856 pp. | 


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Table of Contents

Introduction



Better Detection: Improving Our Chances, Marilyn A. Schneider, Ph.D., Executive Director, Canadian Breast Cancer Research Initiative



Image Acquisition



Microcalcification: Is Digital Luminescence Mammography Equal to Film Screen Systems?, U. Aichinger, S. Kramer, U. Wilhelmi, R. Schulz-Wendtland, and W. Bautz



Effects of Stereoscopic Imaging Technique on Depth Discrimination, Heang-Ping Chan, Mitchell M. Goodsitt, Katie L. Darner, Jeffrey M. Sullivan, Ludomir M. Hadjiiski, Nicholas Petrick, and Berkman Sahiner



Measurement of Light Propagation Characteristics in a Gradient Gd2O2S Screen, Virgil N. Cooper, John M. Boone, J. Anthony Seibert, and Werner Roeck



Quantitative Analysis and Qualitative Performance of a Flat Panel Detector for Digital Mammography, Anne Debrie, Mario Caron, Serge Savard, Marc Hansroul, Kerwin Wong, Vincent Loustauneau, Ziad Shukri and Jean-Pierre Martin



Method to Determine the Minimum Distance Between Focus and Image Plane on Digital Tomosynthesis to Visualize Ductal and Periductal Microcalcifications, David Fernandez, Antonio Albiol, and Jose M. Mossi



Comparison of Different Detector Materials for Digital Mammography, Nancy L. Ford, James G. Mainprize, Martin J. Yaffe, Shi Yin, Tumay Tumer, Eli E. Gordon, and William J. Hamilton



Evaluation of the Effect of Virtual Cursor Shape on Depth Measurements in Digital Stereomammograms, Mitchell M. Goodsitt, Heang-Ping Chan, Jeffrey M. Sullivan, Latie L. Darner, and Lubomir M. Hadjiiski



Decreased Breast Compression Using Digital Mammography at Screen/Film Mean Glandular Dose, C. Kimme-Smith, T.-Y. Yee, and L. W. Bassett



Merits of Using a 3-D Visualization Technique to Target Microcalcifications, B. Leduc, R. Shumak, G.E. Mawdsley, M..J.. Yaffe, and R.A. Jong



Improvements in Digital Mammography with Synchrotron Radiation, R. Longo, A. Olivo, F. Arfelli, G. Cantatore, S. Pani, P. Popopat, M. Prest, L. Rigon, E. Vallazza, E. Castelli, L. Dalla Palma, R. Menk, and G. Tromba



Automated Reconstruction of 3D Calcifications, Andrew D.A. Maidment and Michael Albert



Characterizing the Performance of Solid State Detectors for Digital Mammography, James G. Mainprize, Nancy L. Ford, and Martin J. Yaffe



Characterization of an X-ray Imaging Setup for Digital Mammography Based on a Silicon Microstrip Detector, Tadej Mali, Vladimir Cinddro, Marko Mikuz, Dejan Krizaj, Danilo Vrtacnik, and Urban Zdesar



Analysis of the Influence of Pixel Size on Diagnostic Accuracy in Digital Mammography, Serge Muller, Andreas Rick, Kathy Priday, and Laurent Levy



Evaluation of Observer Performance of Spot Mammograms Obtained from a Hybrid Breast Phantom Using Tuned-Aperture Computed Tomography and Standardized Controls, Richard L. Webber, Hunter R. Underhill, and Rita I. Freimanis



Beam Optimization for Digital Mammography, Mark B. Williams, Mitali J. More, Vaidehi Venkatakrishnan, Loren Niklason, Martin J. Yaffe, Gordon Mawdsley, Aili Bloomquist, Andrew Maidment, Dev Chakraborty, Carolyn Kimme-Smith, and Laurie L. Fajardo



Relationships Between Detector Design Parameters and Imaging Performance of Amorphous Selenium Based Flat-Panel Detectors for Digital Mammography, Wei Zhao, W.G. Ji, J.A. Rowlands, and Anne Debrie







Computer-Aided Detection



Quality Control of Mammographic Images: Automated Detection of Microcalcifications in Phantom Images, Mouloud Adel, Anne-Catherine Carrilero, Monique Rasigni, Georges Rasigni, Brigitte Seradour, and Patrice Heid



Radiologists' Description and Interpretation of Mammographic Microcalcifications: A Knowledge Elicitation Study for Computerized Decision Support, Eugenio Alberdi, Richard Lee, and Paul Taylor



Extracting Background Texture in Mammographic Images: A Co-occurrence Matrices Based Approach, Lillian Blot and Reyer Zwiggelaar



Detection of Microcalcifications Associated with Cancer, Murk J. Bottema and John P. Slavotinek



High Resolution Granulometric Analysis for Early Detection of Small Microcalcification Clusters in X-ray Mammograms, Michel Bruynooghe



Automatic Detection of Clustered Microcalcifications Using a Combined Method with a Support Vector Machine (SVM) Classifier, Renato Campanini, Armando Bazzani, Dante Bollini, Alessandro Riccardi, Alessandro Bevilacqua, Nico Lanconelli, and Davide Romani



Using a Bayesian Neural Network to Optimally Eliminate False-Positive Microcalcification Detections in a CAD Scheme



Analysis of Computer Extracted Features Related to Size of Micro-Calcifications: Correlation with Pathologic Diagnosis



Automated Detection and Classification of Masses on Breast Ultrasonograms and its 3D Imaging Technique



Comupterized Classification of Lesions on Digital Mammography



Accurate Detection of Microcalcifications on Mammograms by Improvement of Morphological Processing



Automated Classification Method of Mammographic Microcalcifications by Using Artificial Neural Network and ACR BI-RADS Criteria of Microcalcification Distribution



An Automatic Detection Algorithm for Masses with a Partial Loss of Region on Mammograms



The Digital Database for Screening Mammography



Mass Detection by Relative Image Intensity



Computer-Aided Diagnosis: An Improved Metric Space for Pixel Signatures



Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Lesions on Ultrasound



Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Malignant and Benign Microcalcifications in Small-Field Digital Mammograms



Computer-Aided Detection and Interpretation in Mammography



Automated Detection and Classification of Clustered Microcalcifications Using Morphological Filtering and Statistical Techniques



Classification of Masses in Screening Mammograms as Benign or Malignant



Hybrid Decision-Making Method for FP Reduction in CAD Mass Detection



Classifying Lobular and DCIS Microcalcifications



Calssification of Microcalcifications in Digital Mammograms Using Case-Based Reasoning



Comparing Image Correspondence in Mammograms



The CALMA Mammographs Database: Image Collection and CAD Tools for Spiculated Lesions Detection and Texture Classification



Detection of Masses in Mammograms Using Flow-Field Principles



The Effects of Scale and Segmentation Error in the Analysis of Breast Calcifications



Fully Automatic Explicit Differential Diagnosis of Breast Calcifications



Preclinical Evaluation of a CAD Algorithm for Early Detection of Breast Cancer



"Noise Equalization" for Microcalcification Detection?



Assessing Cluster Significance



Adaptive CAD Modules for Telemammography



Computer-Aided Diagnosis Based on Analysis of Microcalcifications



Active Contour Models for Segmentation and Characterization of Mammographic Masses



Improved Detection Method of Tumor Candidates on Digital Mammograms



Methodology of Interactive Segmentation and Feature Analysis of Masses in Digitized Mammograms



Detection of Microcalcifications with the Use of Levy Flights Model



Elimination of Calcified False Positives in Detection of Microcalcifications in Mammograms Using Hough Transform





Fully Automated Classification of Microcalcification Cases Referred from a Nation-Wide Screening Program



Computer Description of Mammographic Masses



Evaluation of the Architecture Similarity Between Left and Right Breast



Plug & Play CAD: A Proof of Concept



Baseline Comparison of Calcification Detection Algorithms



Application of Computer-Aided Diagnosis to Full-Field Digital Mammography



Separating Anatomical Structures and Background Texture in Mammographic Images



Detecting Linear Structures in Mammographic Images



A Comparative Study of Four Techniques for Calcification Detection



Performance Analysis of a Multi-Line Digital Mammography Detector



Unsupervised Detection of Microcalcifications Using Gabor Filter Based Features



Better Detection: Improving Our Chances





Clinical Aspects



The Ontario Breast Screening Program: Results from an Organized Screening Program, 1990-1998



Detection of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS) and Early Invasive Carcinoma: Comparison of Conventional Mammography and Full-Field Digital Mammography



Human Factors Considerations for CAD Implementation in Breast Screening



Interim Clinical Evaluation of FFDM in a Screening Cohort: Comparison with Screen-Film Mammography in 4,965 Women



Non-Inferiority Study of FFDM in an Enriched Diagnostic Cohort: Comparison with Screen-Film Mammography in 625 Women



Characterization of Normal Mammograms



Prospective Computer Analysis of Cancers Missed on Screening Mammography



Full-Field Digital Mammography in Comparison to Screen-Film Mammography: A Phantom Study



Accuracy of Digital Mammography vs. Screen-Film Mammography in a Diagnostic Mammography Population



Preliminary Clinical Evaluation of a Digital Diagnostic Imaging System Using a-Se on CMOS



Clinical Evaluation of Pixel Size Requirements for Digital Spot Mammography



Digital Mammography: Utility, Future Clinical Roles, Limitations



Population-Based Full Field Direct Digital Mammography (FFDDM) Screening: The Oslo Project



Interpretation Skills of Radiologists in a Nationwide Screening Programme



Image Processing



Enhancement Technique Evaluation Using Quantitative Measures on Digital Mammograms



Automatic Breast Border Segmentation by Background Modeling and Subtraction



Soft-Copy Reading Environment for Screening Mammography - SCREEN



Segmentation of Mammograms: Identification of the Skin Boundary and the Pectoral Muscle



Multi-Scale Landmark Selection for Improved Registration of Temporal Mammograms



Automatic Removal of High Intensity Labels and Noise from Mammograms



Evaluation of a New Neural Network Based Lossy Image Compression Method on Digitized Mammograms



Local Contrast Enhancement for the Detection of Microcalcifications



Wavelet Transform Improves Contrast Enhancement of Digital Mammographic Images



Robust Segmentation of Microcalcifications and Curvilinear Structures



Preference Studies of Workstation Monitor Performance



Contrast Enhancement of Mammography Image Using Homomorphic Filter in Wavelet Domain



Quality Control



Contrast-Detail Resolution of Full-Field Digital Mammography in Comparison to Conventional Film-Screen Mammography



Modification of the CDMAM Contrast-Detail Phantom for Image Quality Evaluation of Full Field Digital Mammography Systems



Automated Quality Assurance in Mammographic Imaging



Telemammography for Breast Screening



Digital Mammography Quality Assurance Automation



Comparison of the Detectability of Small Details in a Film-Screen and a Digital Mammography System by the Imaging of a New CDMAM-Phantom



Quality Control Phantom for Full Field Digital Mammographic Systems



Objective Image Quality and Contrast Detail Evaluation of Small Field Digital Mammography Devices





Quantitative Image Analysis



Image Retrieval Based In Texture Content Aiding Breast Cancer Diagnosis



Evaluation of a Mammography Simulation



The Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Model Breast Compression in X-ray Mammography for MR/X-ray Data Fusion



The Generation of Simulated Mammograms from Contrast Enhanced MRI for Surgical Planning and Postoperative Assessment



Estimating Breast Density Using a Volumetric Technique and Full-Field Digital Mammograms: Preliminary Results



Generating Realistic Spiculated Lesions in Digital Mammograms



Transofrmation of Mammograms Based on Anatomical Features



Simulating Disease in Mammography



Analysis of the Relative Contributions of Age and Mammographic Features to Breast Cancer Risk Prediction



An Automated Classification Method for Mammograms Based on Evaluation of Fibroglandular Breast Tissue Density



3D Reconstruction of Clustered Microcalcifications:Software Components



Prediction of Object Location in Different Mammographic Views Using Geometrical Models



Image-Matching of Mammogram Pairs



Large Breast Tissue Deformation Finite Element Modeling for MR/X-ray Mammography Data Fusion



Validation of a Method for Segmentation of Dense Tissue in Mammograms by Correlation with MRI Data



Development and Assessment of Protocols for Efficient Utilization of Large-Scale Digital Mammography Databases



Simulated Mammography of a Three-Dimensional Brest Model



The Comparative Analysis of Mammograms: A Nonrigid Approach to Registration



Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Microcalcification Clusters from Two Mammographic Views