The evaluation of four small-field digital mammography systems

Detection of clustered microcalcifications in small field digital mammography

The most frequent symptoms of ductal carcinoma recognised by mammography are clusters of microcalcifications. Their detection from mammograms is difficult, especially for glandular breasts. We present a new computer-aided detection system for small field digital mammography in planning of breast biopsy. The system processes the mammograms in several steps. First, we filter the original picture ...

Task Specific Evaluation Methodology for Clinical Full Field Digital Mammography

Title of dissertation: TASK SPECIFIC EVALUATION METHODOLOGY FOR CLINICAL FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY Haimo Liu, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Dissertation directed by: Professor Iacovos Kyprianou Department of Bioengineering Purpose: The purpose of this dissertation is to evaluate the image quality of clinical Full Field Digital Mammography (FFDM) systems. This is done by evaluating image acqui...

Realizing the Benefits of Full-Field Digital Mammography

A comparison of the accuracy of film-screen mammography, full-field digital mammography, and digital breast tomosynthesis.

AIM To measure the change in diagnostic accuracy of conventional film-screen mammography and full-field digital mammography (FFDM) with the addition of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) in women recalled for assessment following routine screening. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ethics approval for the study was granted. Women recalled for assessment following routine screening with screen-film mammog...

Screen-Film Mammography and Soft-Copy Full-Field Digital Mammography: Comparison in the Patients with Microcalcifications

OBJECTIVE We wanted to compare the ability of screen-film mammography (SFM) and soft-copy full-field digital mammography (s-FFDM) on two different monitors to detect and characterize microcalcifications. MATERIALS AND METHODS The images of 40 patients with microcalcifications(three patients had malignant lesion and 37 patients had benign lesion), who underwent both SFM and FFDM at an interval...