Anatomical complexity in breast parenchyma and its implications for optimal breast imaging strategies

L Chen, CK Abbey, A Nosratieh, KK Lindfors… - Medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to assess the anatomical noise in breast
images using a mathematically derived parameterβ as a surrogate for detection …

Association between power law coefficients of the anatomical noise power spectrum and lesion detectability in breast imaging modalities

L Chen, CK Abbey, JM Boone - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Previous research has demonstrated that a parameter extracted from a power function fit to
the anatomical noise power spectrum, β, may be predictive of breast mass lesion …

The relationship between anatomic noise and volumetric breast density for digital mammography

JG Mainprize, AH Tyson, MJ Yaffe - Medical Physics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The appearance of parenchymal/stromal patterns in mammography have been
characterized as having a Wiener power spectrum with an inverse power‐law shape …

Characterizing anatomical variability in breast CT images

KG Metheany, CK Abbey, N Packard… - Medical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Previous work [Burgess et al., Med. Phys. 28, 419–437 (2001)] has shown that anatomical
noise in projection mammography results in a power spectrum well modeled over a range of …

Computational breast anatomy simulation using multi-scale Perlin noise

B Barufaldi, CK Abbey, MA Lago… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Virtual clinical trials (VCTs) of medical imaging require realistic models of human anatomy.
For VCTs in breast imaging, a multi-scale Perlin noise method is proposed to simulate …

Evaluation of the BreastSimulator software platform for breast tomography

G Mettivier, K Bliznakova, I Sechopoulos… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The aim of this work was the evaluation of the software BreastSimulator, a breast x-ray
imaging simulation software, as a tool for the creation of 3D uncompressed breast digital …

Parenchymal texture analysis in digital breast tomosynthesis for breast cancer risk estimation: a preliminary study

D Kontos, PR Bakic, AK Carton, AB Troxel, EF Conant… - Academic radiology, 2009 - Elsevier
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Studies have demonstrated a relationship between
mammographic parenchymal texture and breast cancer risk. Although promising, texture …

Analysis of parenchymal texture with digital breast tomosynthesis: comparison with digital mammography and implications for cancer risk assessment

D Kontos, LC Ikejimba, PR Bakic, AB Troxel, EF Conant… - Radiology, 2011 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To correlate the parenchymal texture features at digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT)
and digital mammography with breast percent density (PD), an established breast cancer …

Cascaded analysis of signal and noise propagation through a heterogeneous breast model

JG Mainprize, MJ Yaffe - Medical physics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The detectability of lesions in radiographic images can be impaired by patterns
caused by the surrounding anatomic structures. The presence of such patterns is often …

Quantitative imaging in breast tomosynthesis and CT: Comparison of detection and estimation task performance

S Richard, E Samei - Medical physics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose This work investigates a framework for modeling volumetric breast imaging to
compare detection and estimation task performance and optimize quantitative breast …