Digital Mammography: 8th International Workshop, IWDM 2006, Manchester, UK, June 18-21, 2006. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
A New Step-Wedge for the Volumetric Measurement of Mammographic Density....Pages 1-9
Assessing Ground Truth of Glandular Tissue....Pages 10-17
Volumetric Breast Density Estimation on Mammograms Using Breast Tissue Equivalent Phantoms – An Update....Pages 18-25
An Alternative Approach to Measuring Volumetric Mammographic Breast Density....Pages 26-33
Breast Density Dependent Computer Aided Detection....Pages 34-38
Evaluation of Effects of HRT on Breast Density....Pages 39-45
Modeling the Effect of Computer-Aided Detection on the Sensitivity of Screening Mammography....Pages 46-53
Use of Prompt Magnitude in Computer Aided Detection of Masses in Mammograms....Pages 54-60
Current Screening Practice: Implications for the Introduction of CAD....Pages 61-67
Mammographic Mass Detection Using Unsupervised Clustering in Synergy with a Parcimonious Supervised Rule-Based Classifier....Pages 68-75
Computerized Classification Can Reduce Unnecessary Biopsies in BI-RADS Category 4A Lesions....Pages 76-83
Addressing Image Variability While Learning Classifiers for Detecting Clusters of Micro-calcifications....Pages 84-91
Computer-Aided Detection of Breast Cancer Using an Ultra High-Resolution Liquid Crystal Display: Reading Session Analysis....Pages 92-96
Mammography Reading with Computer-Aided Detection (CAD): Performance of Different Readers....Pages 97-104
The Impact of Integration of Computer-Aided Detection and Human Observers....Pages 105-110
Improving Access to Mammography in Rural Areas....Pages 111-117
Dual Modality Surgical Guidance for Non-palpable Breast Lesions....Pages 118-124
Mammography Reading with Computer-Aided Detection (CAD): Single View vs Two Views....Pages 125-130
Automated Breast Tissue Measurement of Women at Increased Risk of Breast Cancer....Pages 131-136
Mammography Tomosynthesis System for High Performance 3D Imaging....Pages 137-143
Clinical Evaluation of a Photon-Counting Tomosynthesis Mammography System....Pages 144-151
Three-Dimensional Digital Breast Tomosynthesis in the Early Diagnosis and Detection of Breast Cancer....Pages 152-159
Lesion Visibility in Low Dose Tomosynthesis....Pages 160-166
Generalized Filtered Back-Projection Reconstruction in Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 167-174
Adaptation of Image Quality Using Various Filter Setups in the Filtered Backprojection Approach for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 175-182
Optimization of Contrast-Enhanced Digital Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 183-189
Development of an Analytic Breast Phantom for Quantitative Comparison of Reconstruction Algorithms for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis....Pages 190-196
X-Ray Mammogram Registration: A Novel Validation Method....Pages 197-204
A Probabilistic Approach for the Simultaneous Mammogram Registration and Abnormality Detection....Pages 205-212
Mammographic Registration: Proposal and Evaluation of a New Approach....Pages 213-220
Image Similarity and Asymmetry to Improve Computer-Aided Detection of Breast Cancer....Pages 221-228
Potential Usefulness of Multiple-Mammographic Views in Computer-Aided Diagnosis Scheme for Identifying Histological Classification of Clustered Microcalcification....Pages 229-236
Exploitation of Correspondence Between CC and MLO Views in Computer Aided Mass Detection....Pages 237-242
Breast Composition Measurements Using Retrospective Standard Mammogram Form (SMF)....Pages 243-250
A Scatter Model for Use in Measuring Volumetric Mammographic Breast Density....Pages 251-258
Using a Homogeneity Test as Weekly Quality Control on Digital Mammography Units....Pages 259-265
Automated and Human Determination of Threshold Contrast for Digital Mammography Systems....Pages 266-272
Beam Optimization for Digital Mammography – II....Pages 273-280
Image Qualities of Phase-Contrast Mammography....Pages 281-288
Application of the Multiple Image Radiography Method to Breast Imaging....Pages 289-298
Correlating Cone-Beam CT and Large-Section Histology Image Sets: Initial Results Using a Surgical Lumpectomy Specimen....Pages 299-306
Calcification Descriptor and Relevance Feedback Learning Algorithms for Content-Based Mammogram Retrieval....Pages 307-314
Clinical Optimization of Filters in Direct a-Se FFDM (Full Field Digital Mammography) System....Pages 315-323
Study on Cascade Classification in Abnormal Shadow Detection for Mammograms....Pages 324-331
Classifying Masses as Benign or Malignant Based on Co-occurrence Matrix Textures: A Comparison Study of Different Gray Level Quantizations....Pages 332-339
A Ranklet-Based CAD for Digital Mammography....Pages 340-346
Detection of Microcalcifications in Digital Mammograms Based on Dual-Threshold....Pages 347-354
Feasibility and Acceptability of Stepwedge-Based Density Measurement....Pages 355-361
Use of the European Protocol to Optimise a Digital Mammography System....Pages 362-369
Automated Detection Method for Architectural Distortion with Spiculation Based on Distribution Assessment of Mammary Gland on Mammogram....Pages 370-375
Web Services for the DDSM and Digital Mammography Research....Pages 376-383
GPCALMA: An Italian Mammographic Database of Digitized Images for Research....Pages 384-391
Development of Breast Ultrasound CAD System for Screening....Pages 392-398
Linking Image Structures with Medical Ontology Information....Pages 399-406
Comparison Between Wolfe, Boyd, BI-RADS and Tabár Based Mammographic Risk Assessment....Pages 407-415
Initial Results of the Daily Quality Control of Medical Screen Devices Using a Dynamic Pattern in a Digital Mammography Environment....Pages 416-423
A Filter-Based Approach Towards Automatic Detection of Microcalcification....Pages 424-432
Texture Based Segmentation....Pages 433-440
Image Quality of a Photon-Counting Mammography System Compared to Digital Mammography Based on Amorphous Silicon with CsI-Scintillator....Pages 441-446
Understanding Hessian-Based Density Scoring....Pages 447-452
Review of the Dose and Image Quality Characteristics of 3 FFDM Systems in Clinical Practice in a Screening Programme....Pages 453-459
Impact of Textured Background on Scoring of Simulated CDMAM Phantom....Pages 460-467
Magnetic Resonance Electrical Impedance Mammography: A Pilot Study....Pages 468-474
Experimental Investigation of the Necessity for Extra Flat Field Corrections in Quality Control of Digital Mammography....Pages 475-481
Observer Evaluations of Wavelet Methods for the Enhancement and Compression of Digitized Mammograms....Pages 482-489
Evaluating the Effect of Dose on Reconstructed Image Quality in Digital Tomosynthesis....Pages 490-497
Registration of Mammograms and Breast Tomosynthesis Images....Pages 498-503
Complementary Role of Computer Aided Detection in Mammography....Pages 504-508
The Refinement of Microcalcification Cluster Assessment by Joint Analysis of MLO and CC Views....Pages 509-516
The Dependence of Tomosynthesis Imaging Performance on the Number of Scan Projections....Pages 517-524
First Attempt at 3D X-Ray Visualization of DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ) Due to Refraction Contrast – In Good Relation to Pathological View....Pages 525-532
Lossless Compression of Digital Mammograms....Pages 533-540
Capturing Microcalcification Patterns in Dense Parenchyma with Wavelet-Based Eigenimages....Pages 541-548
Breast Component Adaptive Wavelet Enhancement for Soft-Copy Display of Mammograms....Pages 549-556
Using Wavelet-Based Features to Identify Masses in Dense Breast Parenchyma....Pages 557-564
Leveraging the Digital Mammography Image Screening Trial (DMIST) Data for the Evaluation of Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) Devices: A Proposal....Pages 565-568
Comparison of Computerized Image Analyses for Digitized Screen-Film Mammograms and Full-Field Digital Mammography Images....Pages 569-575
Comparison Between CRT and LCD Displays for Full-Field-Digital-Mammography (FFDM) Interpretation....Pages 576-584
A Harmonized Quality Control Program for Digital Mammography....Pages 585-592
Contrast Threshold of 4 Full Field Digital Mammography Systems Using Different Measurement Methods....Pages 593-600
The Use of Multi-scale Monogenic Signal on Structure Orientation Identification and Segmentation....Pages 601-608
Breast Density Segmentation Using Texture....Pages 609-615
Texture Based Mammogram Classification and Segmentation....Pages 616-625
Mammographic Risk Assessment Based on Anatomical Linear Structures....Pages 626-633
Comparison of Methods for Classification of Breast Ductal Branching Patterns....Pages 634-641
Validation of Graph Theoretic Segmentation of the Pectoral Muscle....Pages 642-649
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