How does image quality affect radiologists' perceived ability for image interpretation and lesion detection in digital mammography?

J Boita, RE van Engen, A Mackenzie, A Tingberg… - European …, 2021 - Springer
Objectives To study how radiologists' perceived ability to interpret digital mammography
(DM) images is affected by decreases in image quality. Methods One view from 45 DM …

Design and validation of realistic breast models for use in multiple alternative forced choice virtual clinical trials

P Elangovan, A Mackenzie, DR Dance… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A novel method has been developed for generating quasi-realistic voxel phantoms which
simulate the compressed breast in mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) …

The effect of system geometry and dose on the threshold detectable calcification diameter in 2D-mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis

A Hadjipanteli, P Elangovan… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is under consideration to replace or to be used in
combination with 2D-mammography in breast screening. The aim of this study was the …

Characterisation of noise and sharpness of images from four digital breast tomosynthesis systems for simulation of images for virtual clinical trials

A Mackenzie, NW Marshall… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In-depth evaluation of the noise and sharpness characteristics of FujiFilm Innovality, GE
SenoClaire, Hologic Selenia Dimensions and Siemens Inspiration digital breast …

The relationship between cancer detection in mammography and image quality measurements

A Mackenzie, LM Warren, MG Wallis, RM Given-Wilson… - Physica Medica, 2016 - Elsevier
Purpose To investigate the relationship between image quality measurements and the
clinical performance of digital mammographic systems. Methods Mammograms containing …

The threshold detectable mass diameter for 2D-mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis

A Hadjipanteli, P Elangovan, A Mackenzie, K Wells… - Physica Medica, 2019 - Elsevier
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is currently under consideration for replacement of, or
combined use with 2D-mammography in national breast screening programmes. To …

OPTIMAM image simulation toolbox-recent developments and ongoing studies

P Elangovan, A Hadjipanteli, A Mackenzie… - Breast Imaging: 13th …, 2016 - Springer
Virtual clinical trials (VCTs) are increasingly being seen as a viable pre-clinical method for
evaluation of imaging systems in breast cancer screening. The CR-UK funded OPTIMAM …

Method for simulating dose reduction in digital breast tomosynthesis

LR Borges, I Guerrero, PR Bakic, A Foi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a new method of simulating dose reduction in digital breast
tomosynthesis, starting from a clinical image acquired with a standard radiation dose. It …

Breast cancer detection rates using four different types of mammography detectors

A Mackenzie, LM Warren, MG Wallis, J Cooke… - European …, 2016 - Springer
Objective To compare the performance of different types of detectors in breast cancer
detection. Methods A mammography image set containing subtle malignant non-calcification …

Method for simulating dose reduction in digital mammography using the Anscombe transformation

LR Borges, HCR Oliveira, PF Nunes, PR Bakic… - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: This work proposes an accurate method for simulating dose reduction in digital
mammography starting from a clinical image acquired with a standard dose. Methods: The …