Task-based measures of image quality and their relation to radiation dose and patient risk

HH Barrett, KJ Myers, C Hoeschen… - Physics in Medicine …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The theory of task-based assessment of image quality is reviewed in the context of imaging
with ionizing radiation, and objective figures of merit (FOMs) for image quality are …

Breast ct

SJ Glick - Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Breast cancer is a serious disease that accounts for approximately 40,000 deaths per year in
the United States. Unfortunately, there is no known cause of breast cancer, and therefore the …

Human-and model-observer performance in ramp-spectrum noise: effects of regularization and object variability

CK Abbey, HH Barrett - JOSA A, 2001 - opg.optica.org
We consider detection of a nodule signal profile in noisy images meant to roughly simulate
the statistical properties of tomographic image reconstructions in nuclear medicine. The …

Assessing the ability of generative adversarial networks to learn canonical medical image statistics

VA Kelkar, DS Gotsis, FJ Brooks… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have gained tremendous popularity
for potential applications in medical imaging, such as medical image synthesis, restoration …

Approximating the ideal observer and hotelling observer for binary signal detection tasks by use of supervised learning methods

W Zhou, H Li, MA Anastasio - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is widely accepted that the optimization of medical imaging system performance should be
guided by task-based measures of image quality (IQ). Task-based measures of IQ quantify …

Quantum noise properties of CT images with anatomical textured backgrounds across reconstruction algorithms: FBP and SAFIRE

J Solomon, E Samei - Medical physics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Quantum noise properties of CT images are generally assessed using simple
geometric phantoms with uniform backgrounds. Such phantoms may be inadequate when …

A three-dimensional breast software phantom for mammography simulation

K Bliznakova, Z Bliznakov, V Bravou… - Physics in Medicine …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a methodology for three-dimensional (3D) computer modelling of the
breast, using a combination of 3D geometrical primitives and voxel matrices that can be …

A computer simulation study comparing lesion detection accuracy with digital mammography, breast tomosynthesis, and cone‐beam CT breast imaging

X Gong, SJ Glick, B Liu, AA Vedula… - Medical physics, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Although conventional mammography is currently the best modality to detect early breast
cancer, it is limited in that the recorded image represents the superposition of a three …

Mammogram synthesis using a 3D simulation. I. Breast tissue model and image acquisition simulation

PR Bakic, M Albert, D Brzakovic… - Medical …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
A method is proposed for generating synthetic mammograms based upon simulations of
breast tissue and the mammographic imaging process. A computer breast model has been …

The characterization of breast anatomical metrics using dedicated breast CT

SY Huang, JM Boone, K Yang, NJ Packard… - Medical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Accurate anatomical characterization of the breast is useful in breast phantom
development and computer modeling of breast imaging technologies. Capitalizing on the …