Mammographic thickness compensation for image analysis and display enhancement

Dan Rico; Martin Joel Yaffe; Bindu J. Augustine; Gordon E. Mawdsley

doi:10.1117/12.480828

15 May 2003 Mammographic thickness compensation for image analysis and display enhancement

Dan Rico, Martin Joel Yaffe, Bindu J. Augustine, Gordon E. Mawdsley

Proceedings Volume 5032, Medical Imaging 2003: Image Processing; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480828
Event: Medical Imaging 2003, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel algorithm for mammographic image enhancenment, based on identifying the peripheral region of the breast and suppressing the large change in signal caused by reduction of thickness there, while maintaining the local contrast information related to tissue composition. The thickness compensation algorithm consists of three processing steps. The first step is to generate a thickness map using two phantoms, one which simulates the shape of the breast in the cranio-caudal projection and a second one as a triangular attenuator. The second step is to warp the phantom thickness map in the peripheral region to that of the breast image. The third step is to equalize the signal values in the peripheral region relative to the signal in the uniform thickness area using the warped thickness map data. Examples are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed method in effectively suppressing the large range of signal caused by thickness changes in the peripheral region, thereby facilitating image presentation and analysis. The performance of the proposed algorithm was also evaluated on clinical mammograms by computing volumetric breast density.

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Dan Rico, Martin Joel Yaffe, Bindu J. Augustine, and Gordon E. Mawdsley "Mammographic thickness compensation for image analysis and display enhancement", Proc. SPIE 5032, Medical Imaging 2003: Image Processing, (15 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480828

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