Performance evaluation of digital breast tomosynthesis systems: physical methods and experimental data

NW Marshall, H Bosmans - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) has become a well-established breast imaging
technique, whose performance has been investigated in many clinical studies, including a …

The use of a figure-of-merit (FOM) for optimisation in digital mammography: a literature review

M Borg, I Badr, GJ Royle - Radiation protection dosimetry, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The use of image quality parameters in digital mammography such as contrast-to-noise ratio
(CNR), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and detective quantum efficiency (DQE) has been …

Development of realistic physical breast phantoms matched to virtual breast phantoms based on human subject data

N Kiarashi, AC Nolte, GM Sturgeon, WP Segars… - Medical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Physical phantoms are essential for the development, optimization, and evaluation
of x‐ray breast imaging systems. Recognizing the major effect of anatomy on image quality …

Dual-energy contrast-enhanced digital breast tomosynthesis–a feasibility study

AK Carton, SC Gavenonis, JA Currivan… - The British journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Contrast-enhanced digital breast tomosynthesis (CE-DBT) is a novel modality for imaging
breast lesion morphology and vascularity. The purpose of this study is to assess the …

Physical imaging parameter variation drives domain shift

O Kilim, A Olar, T Joó, T Palicz, P Pollner, I Csabai - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Statistical learning algorithms strongly rely on an oversimplified assumption for optimal
performance, that is, source (training) and target (testing) data are independent and …

Image quality assessment in digital mammography: part II. NPWE as a validated alternative for contrast detail analysis

P Monnin, NW Marshall, H Bosmans… - Physics in Medicine …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Assessment of image quality for digital x-ray mammography systems used in European
screening programs relies mainly on contrast-detail CDMAM phantom scoring and requires …

Investigation of the effect of anode/filter materials on the dose and image quality of a digital mammography system based on an amorphous selenium flat panel …

P Baldelli, N Phelan, G Egan - The British journal of radiology, 2010 - academic.oup.com
A comparison, in terms of image quality and glandular breast dose, was carried out between
two similar digital mammography systems using amorphous selenium flat panel detectors …

Breast composition: measurement and clinical use

EU Ekpo, P Hogg, R Highnam, MF McEntee - Radiography, 2015 - Elsevier
Breast density is a measure of the extent of radiodense fibroglandular tissue in the breast.
The risk of developing breast cancer and the risk of missing cancer at screening rise with …

The Holistic perspective of the INCISIVE Project—Artificial intelligence in screening mammography

I Lazic, F Agullo, S Ausso, B Alves, C Barelle… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Finding new ways to cost-effectively facilitate population screening and improve cancer
diagnoses at an early stage supported by data-driven AI models provides unprecedented …

A technique optimization protocol and the potential for dose reduction in digital mammography

NT Ranger, JY Lo, E Samei - Medical Physics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Digital mammography requires revisiting techniques that have been optimized for prior
screen/film mammography systems. The objective of the study was to determine optimized …