Advances in digital and physical anthropomorphic breast phantoms for x‐ray imaging

SJ Glick, LC Ikejimba - Medical physics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose With the advent of three‐dimensional (3D) breast imaging modalities such as
digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and dedicated breast CT (bCT), research into new …

Virtual clinical trial of lesion detection in digital mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis

PR Bakic, B Barufaldi, D Higginbotham… - … 2018: Physics of …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We have designed and conducted 35 virtual clinical trials (VCTs) of breast lesion detection
in digital mammography (DM) and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) using a novel open …

Deep learning denoising of digital breast tomosynthesis: Observer performance study of the effect on detection of microcalcifications in breast phantom images

HP Chan, MA Helvie, M Gao, L Hadjiiski… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background The noise in digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) includes x‐ray quantum noise
and detector readout noise. The total radiation dose of a DBT scan is kept at about the level …

Evaluation of denoising digital breast tomosynthesis data in both projection and image domains and a study of noise model on digital breast tomosynthesis image …

DC Scarparo, DHP Salvadeo… - Journal of Medical …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is an imaging technique created to visualize 3-D
mammary structures for the purpose of diagnosing breast cancer. This imaging technique is …

Effect of dose level on radiologists' detection of microcalcifications in digital breast tomosynthesis: an observer study with breast phantoms

HP Chan, MA Helvie, KA Klein, C McLaughlin… - Academic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives To compare radiologists' sensitivity, confidence level, and reading efficiency of
detecting microcalcifications in digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) at two clinically relevant …

Pre-processing for image quality improvement in simultaneous DBT and mechanical imaging

PR Bakic, M Dustler, S Ng… - … 2020: Physics of …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Simultaneous digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and mechanical imaging (MI) offer the
potential to combine anatomic information from DBT with functional information from MI. This …

A benchmark of denoising digital breast tomosynthesis in projection domain: neural network-based and traditional methods

DMN de Araújo, DHP Salvadeo… - Medical Imaging 2022 …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) projections are acquired with a high level of noise,
compared to Digital Mammography (DM) projections. Noise reduction in DBT projections is …

Denoising digital breast tomosynthesis projections using deep learning with synthetic data as training set

DMN de Araújo, DHP Salvadeo… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Purpose Image denoising based on deep neural networks (DNN) needs a big dataset
containing digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) projections acquired in different radiation …

Denoising digital breast tomosynthesis projections using convolutional neural networks

DMN de Araújo, DHP Salvadeo… - Medical Imaging 2021 …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) projections are obtained with low quality, being
essential to use denoising methods to increase the quality of the projections. Currently, deep …

Validation of the textural realism of a 3D anthropomorphic phantom for digital breast tomosynthesis

RJ Acciavatti, MK Hsieh, A Gastounioti… - … Workshop on Breast …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In this paper, texture calculations are used to validate the realism of a physical
anthropomorphic phantom for digital breast tomosynthesis. The texture features were …